leaves abortion a question for each state to settle. that heads up if you will by no means makes this day any less consequential. justice samuel aleto says roe was egregious from the start. in a joint rebuttal the court s three liberals wrote this, with sorrow for this court but more for the many ill-man s american women who today have lost a fundamental constitutional protection, we dissent. the impact nationwide will be limit. the role reversal was the goal, of course, of a decades long conservative campaign to tilt the courts their way. the three trump appointees to the high court, the culmination of that. now a new legal chapter unfolds state by state as does a new political fight. we ll hear from president biden shortly. and nancy pelosi vows make abortion now the big deal in the campaign. reporter: the supreme court here issuing its most consequential decision in decades holding there s no longer a federal constitutional right to get an abortion and now handing the is
constitutional right to abortion. states will now define abortion laws. and 13 states have abortion bans that were triggered into law by this morning s ruling. in all about half the states in this country are expected to implement abortion bans. it s a monumental victory for abortion opponents and conservatives. but many liberals and moderates fear that the court could target other landmark presidents like same-sex marriage and contraception. justice clarence thomas explicitly called for those cases to be revisited. he wrote today for that reason the future cases we should reconsider all this court s substantive due process including lawrence, griswold and obergefell. we have a duty to correct the error established in those precedents. cnn s jessica schneider is outside the supreme court, kaitlan collins at the white house. the president just spoke. he did not mince words saying this is a sad day for the court and country. what else did he say? reporter: he called it a sole
one of the most consequential decisions in supreme court history was just handed down. the conservative majority of justices overturned roe vs. wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion. in a narrow 5-4 vote, the landmark decision reverses nearly 50 years of court precedent. this is sparking a range of emotions from victory celebrations to outrage. you see some vocal protesters gathering outside of the supreme court at this hour. president biden called the decision a, quote, tragic error. today, the supreme court of the united states expressly took away a constitutional right from the american people that had already recognized. they didn t limit it. they simply took it away. state laws banning abortion are automatically taking effect today, jeopardizing the health of millions of women, some without exceptions. so extreme that the women could be punished for protecting their health. so, the stunning decision now turns abortion rights over to the states, and the
on girls and women s reproductive autonomy. cnn is live as crowds swell outside the supreme court. plus, the widespread impact, where trigger laws now or soon will make abortion entirely illegal for any girl or woman regardless of circumstances. also on this monumental day, the first major gun safety legislation in decades on its way to the white house for president biden s signature. how democrats and republicans came together to compromise. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with the historic decision from the united states supreme court which has overturned roe v. wade. finding that the 167 million girls and women in the united states have no constitutional right to an abortion. massive crowds gathered outside the high court in washington, d.c. this afternoon. some celebrating, some protesting the 5-4 decision. conservative justices samuel alito, clarence thomas, neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett leaving abortion rights as a que
and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn t have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn t have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. let s bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every single thi