is not doing enough. and d.c. news reporting a white house official, highlighting biden s election executive actions, boosting abortion pills, and contraception. only congress can codify roe v. wade into law. comes as america on friday, louisiana judge ruled that the state can now enforcing near total ban on abortions. just events a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion in that state. that could be on the ballot as soon as next year. president biden reproductive freedom he s also calling it the high court for its dangerous and outrageous kneeling we cannot allow an out of control supreme court working in conjunction with extremist elements of the republican party to take away freedoms. and our personal autonomy. the choice we face as a nation between the mainstream and the extreme. but we are witnessing is in a constitutional judgment, it was an exercise of raw political power. the mainstream, and the extreme. and as you know, it is not just abortion rights.
joining me now to discuss, former u.s. attorney harry litman, he s host of the talking feds podcast. former head secretary in 2020 democratic presidential candidate castro, and john congressman jolly for msnbc. it is good to see you all. harry, i want to start with you because you have described this most recent supreme court term as a wrecking ball to the legal system. what worries you most about the future of this court? everything. so, alicia, this is their first term, and you might have thought that they would ve treaded a little lightly, but on the contrary, it is a very bold, very aggressive court. carefully chosen, as the conservative majority to represent really extreme views at the margins. and everything they have taken up. so you gave the three things that are possibly coming up next term, and that is before
while those voters are available to many of them said in the evangelical pews on sunday mornings. cj castro, david spoke about this moment for democrats. there s a column invoke the reads, quote, the unspoken message from democratic leader seems to be that their hands are tied. what s so many of us are crying out in response is, try anyway, by any means necessary. it is time for democrats to use their full power, tenuous at s it may be, if going though means republicans being ruthless in their quest to deny our rights, can t democrats be equally ruthless to protect them? your thoughts, secretary castro. i think that s a lot of the frustration you saw with the biden administration that boiled over and a couple of days ago, the president at the end of this past week announced new measures that had not been previously announced and we have to think that that was a lot of the pressure. there s this feeling that you have to try, you have to get caught trying, even if it s not successf
the republican party gave the evangelical movement a home in the 80s with the majority. and you saw jimmy falwell and pat robinson and others. and since then, there has been a marriage of necessity between the two. republicans could not win without the evangelical constituency, and the evangelical constituency wanted a political vessel. so they are married at the hip. and what we now see our supreme court decisions manifested in a way that are out of context and out of touch with where this majority of the country statistically is. but that minority is being very vocal and they feel like they ve put in the hard work for 40 years. oh no, david jolly, i think i lost you. but i want to ask you secretary castro, one more question. because the story did not get as much attention as would ve liked to have seen. last, week you have the court limiting how the epa can limit