our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, she s here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the court s term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the president s student loan debt forgiveness program while also issuing a ruling in favor of a website designer that leaves the door open for businesses across the country to discriminate. the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer from colorado who refused to create wedding websites from same-sex couples citing religious grounds. she objected to a colorado law that prohibits discrimination saying it v
so what you have is a court that is extraordinarily aggressive in substituting its judgment for the judgment of other institutions. and i think that s got to be something that concerns people. before today s rulings president biden said he said it yesterday, this court and i m quoting him now, is not normal. he says it s out of sorts with the values of the american people. do you agree, david, is today s court different than the previous times you ve argued before the u.s. supreme court? i m not sure i would say it s not normal. we all would like the court when it decides in our favor and all would not like the court against us. and i think what you can say is the court has swung very much to the right, that this court has abandoned stare decisis, that
our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, she s here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the court s term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the president s student loan debt forgiveness program while also issuing a ruling in favor of a website designer that leaves the door open for businesses across the country to discriminate. the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer from colorado who refused to create wedding websites from same-sex
problem in their minds is try to pass the law and not bypass the constitutional boundaries put in the presidency and given to the congress. i ll let karen respond. again, they did try to pass laws and it was republicans in congress with a little help from a couple of democrats, but we didn t have the republicans vote to actually pass measures to help bring student relief. and so, again, all these decisions taken together, this is huge point of contrast between who democrats are fighting for, who this president is fighting for. are we expanding the circle of opportunity or making it further out of reach with each of these decisions? karen finny, scott jennings, guys, thanks very much. coming up, we ll go live to ukraine where a top intelligence official now claims russia is plotting to assassinate the mercenary chief behind the weekend rebellion. plus a damning state department report details the failures behind the chaotic u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. g bs both large and sma
i would do even more than what was requested. what i did i felt was appropriate and was able to be done and would get done. i didn t give borrowers false hope, but the republicans snatched away the hope they were given, and it s real. real hope. so, karen, how much could this potentially be a political vulnerability for president biden? a political nullinability is for republicans because let s just go back a couple years when republicans were actually campaigning on their opposition to the efforts of president biden who campaigned in 2020 on relieving student debt, and he has taken a number of measures i mean acknowledging you have to deal with both the cost of college as well as the affordability as well as student debt, so i think in this instance particularly given that republicans have been so quick to you and as scott said be delighted, americans across the