life. how are democrats responding? biden cabinet secretary pete buttigieg and congresswoman alexandra ocasio-cortez join me next. and holding court. as republicans celebrate conservative rulings, trump takes credit. is that enough to make voters overlook their concerns? he s getting cornered. we need leaders that are willing to be bold, that are going to be honest. republicans candidates chris christie and will hurd join me to respond in moments. plus, justice for whom. new attacks from top gop candidates on minority rights. instead of taking children to church, they believe in taking children to drag shows. but are they out of step with voters? our political panel will discuss. hello. i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is divided, 6-3. key decisions by the supreme court this week once again upended american life, with a trio of sweeping rulings that divided americans and moved the country to the right, prompting far-reaching consequenc
congressional caucus met with the white house recently around this plan as well as many other advocates in the space as well. and we truly believe that the president congress has given the president this authority. the supreme court is far overreaching their authority, and i believe frankly, that we really need to be having conversations about judicial review, as a check on the courts, as well. i want to talk more broadly about the court in a minute. but first, i want to ask about another decision this past week, striking down affirmative action programs. the two black justices on the court, justice clarence thomas and justice ketanji brown jackson had a really blistering debate that we don t usually see in decisions. here is part of what justice thomas wrote. he said, quote, justice jackson uses her broad observations about statistical relationships between race and select measures of health, wealth, and well-being to label all blacks as victims. her desire to do so is unfathomabl
democratic party cheered a supreme court that went outside the constitution, made extra constitutional decisions in my opinion, because the decisions went in a philosophical direction that they liked. now, when the court makes decisions that they don t like, all of a sudden, the court is, you know, a not-normal court, according to president biden. you know, this is a results-oriented type of gu judgment. what instead they should look at is how they look at the law. and i think gorsuch made a decision that protects all of our first amendment rights. and democrats don t like this now, but if they were being ordered by a state to do something that they felt restrekted their rights, they would be angry about it and they should be. we should not be restricting people s first amendments rights. i hear what you re saying, that this specifically says that this web designer doesn t have to make it for same-sex
same-sex marriage. is there any merit to that argument? no, there isn t. and i think it s very revealing that there s no evidence that this web designer was ever even approached by anyone asking for a website, for a same-sex wedding. as a matter of fact, it appears this wed designer only went into the wedding business for the purpose of provoking a case like this. and in that sense, i think there s something in common between this supreme court ruling and what we re seeing happening in state legislatures across the country, which is kind of a solution looking for a problem. in other words, sending these kinds of things to the courts and sending these kind of things to state legislatures, for the clear purpose of chipping away at the equality and the rights that have so recently been won in the lgbtq+ community. and when they re doing that, it s at the expense of so many other issues that americans are asking for relief and support on. the kinds of economic issues
welcome back to state of the union. several new supreme court decisions will have far-reaching impacts on people in the united states, including a ruling that limits protections for lgbtq americans on free speech grounds. here with me now is transportation secretary, pete buttigieg. mr. secretary, thank you so much for joining me this morning. the supreme court ruled, as you know, that a christian web designer is not required to make websites celebrating same-sex weddings, due to her religious objections. justice neil gorsuch argued that if the court had ruled the other way, then, quote, governments could force an unwilling muslim movie director to make a film with a zionist message, they could compel an atheist muralist to accept a commission celebrating evangelical zeal, and could require a gay website designer to create websites for a group advocating against