gretchen whitmer, london lamar, and senator elizabeth warren all join me live. all in starts right now. good evening from los angeles. i am chris hayes. it is a brutal day for american democracy, for american women, specifically, for all americans could become pregnant. for all americans, really. it right enshrined in the constitution as intimate as any right one could imagine. it has been discarded and destroyed by five unelected justices. three of whom were appointed, of course, by the last president, who got about 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. in american democracy, it is truly rare to see rights taken away in this fashion. the proverbial moral arc of the universe, justice, striving for a more perfect union, to watch these things born backwards towards a reactionary pass, as starkly as this, and one moment to the next, it makes you feel physically nauseous. speaking only for myself, as a person who can become pregnant, a man, it s not even a tiny sliver
the historical tradition of marauding reaction that has so often characterized that body. here it is again, assisting the forces of backlash politics, working to undo what progress, society, social movements, and democratic politics, and other courts have made, towards equal protection under the law. and a dream of a multi cultural, multi racial democracy for all. and much of that changed, it made real, tangibly, only less than five, six decades. it s very precisely delicately young. today, of, course the court and i laid it half a century of settled precedent, simply because it had the votes to do so. the decision by far-right justice samuel alito cited history in the manifest, that is even inconsistent with the
about that, but they come on the next day. obviously, this is coming out a fulcrum moment at the political conversation, because they re many conversations about the rise in personal violence and homicide and crime. a, real very intense backlash politics. you are seeing recall efforts and progressive da in san francisco. you are seeing calls to step back from bail reform in many cities. to add more cops to link sentences to increase breach all the tension. what do you make of that right now? i think we have to look at this first through covid, because, if you go back to when you and i were last together, in the city, certainly we have proven crime one down with a few arrests, less incarceration, consistent decrease in crime and violence, to the point that was only comparable to the 1950s, that was a last time we
fulcrum moment at the political conversation, because they re many conversations about the rise in personal violence and homicide and crime. a, real very intense backlash politics. you are seeing recall efforts and progressive da in san francisco. you are seeing calls to step back from bail reform in many cities. to add more cops to link sentences to increase breach all the tension. what do you make of that right now? i think we have to look at this first through covid, because, if you go back to when you and i were last together, in the city, certainly we have proven crime one down with a few arrests, less incarceration, consistent decrease in crime and violence, to the point that was only comparable to the 1950s, that was a last time we wear that high.
an indiana university announced in the spring it will require all students to be vak si flated. they lobbied the governor to block the move. the president of purdue university, former republican governor of the state last april when the u.s. pandemic was still in its first wave he was announcing they would open in person in fall. mitch daniels announced his university and more than 45,000 students will not require vaccines in the fall. now, i don t know how that s going to turn out. i hope well. maybe people are vaccinated already. again, the principal here is extremely hard to determine. particularly since this defensive private body autonomy is not a watch word among conservative republicans when it comes to the extremely high stakes intimate personal health decision of a woman s pregnancy. it sure seems like the principal is just backlash politics. we perceive that liberals are trying to get you vaccinated,