$500. for that same low, low price, you also get a metaphor for republican governance by this ill conceived stunt. that does it for us tonight. you can catch me back here on tomorrow night at eight pm eastern. now, it s time for the last word with jonathan capehart who is in lawrence. h jo good evening, jonathan. good evening, a man. it s our first time doing a hand up. i know in your last, you re talking about the supreme court. we re gonna pick it up right here at 10:00. i m sure you will, my friend. have a good hour. thanks, eamonn. and on the last day of pride 2023, the republican appointed justices on the supreme court in shrine discrimination against lgbtq people in a case deliberately brought to advance conservative interests in a favorable court. of course, it was about a wedding website. it was decided that in the evangelical website design or in colorado would not have to design the website for same-sex couple because it would violate her first amendment righ
our first time doing a hand off. i know in your last segment, you re talking about the supreme court. we re gonna pick it up right here at 10:00. i m sure you will, my friend. have a good hour. thanks, ayman. and on the last day of pride 2023, the republican appointed justices on the supreme court in shrine discrimination against lgbtq people in a case deliberately brought to advance conservative interests in a favorable court. of course, it was about a wedding website. it was decided that in the evangelical website design or in colorado would not have to design the website for same-sex couple because it would violate her first amendment right by forcing her to say something she didn t believe. here is the thing, no gay couple actually asked for this evangelical website designers work. the conservative legal interest groups created out of cloth this fever dream that an evangelical wedding website design or what have her rights hypothetically challenged if a hypothetical s
we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen before in my 14
amendment. now effecting millions of students and colleges across the country. justice clarence thomas, who has acknowledged affirmative action helped him, against the policy now, describing a color blind constitution. justice ketanji brown jackson, the court s first black woman justice, calling the decision, quote, a tragedy for us all. saying deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. tonight, president biden, again saying this is not a normal court, when asked a question today at the white house. you ll see the moment. terry moran at the court. mary bruce in the studio with me. and rachel scott on how this immediatelying bes an issue in the race for president. also tonight, more than 130 million americans under air quality alerts tonight. millions more suffering from that intense heat. growing more deadly today. the smoke from the canadian wildfires now blanketing 23 states, from wisconsin to the northeast. washington, d.c. and detroit with the worst air
details from our west coast newsroom tonight. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. speaker pelosi s office just released that statement confirming what they called the successful surgery on 82-year-old paul pelosi and saying his doctors at san francisco general hospital expect a full recovery following the violent attack. it was 2:27 this morning when police were alerted to an incident at the pelosi home in san francisco officers apparently arriving so quickly that the assault on mr. pelosi was happening as they got if there. our officers observed ms. pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from ms. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackled the suspect, disharmd him. took him into custody. it s not clear from the police chief s comments who was initially holding the hammer. whether the suspect brought it into the house or whether mr. pelosi had, perhaps, grabbed it for self-defense. polic