it is good to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead this hour, the welcome surprise from the december jobs report showing the u.s. labor market closed out 2023 with a bang. plus, former blade runner, oscar pistorius out on parole after serving almost a decade in prison for murdering his girlfriend. how her family is responding. the latest from iowa where that horrific school shooting has rocked the community of perry. new reporting on how the school s principal acted to save his students. and house democrats and their push to get supreme court justice clarence thomas off the key 2024 ballot. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that new jobs report. nbc senior business report christine roman is with us. give us the big adnes. look, it was a sol i woul - solid end to the year, 216 new jobs in december. they eected the job market to keep slowing because of the fed rate increases, and the job
go and drop off migrants and how they needed a heads up on when they might be coming and they say texas has not complied with that. he s suing the bus companies, the charter buses paid for by texas. texas governor greg abbott completely dismissed this saying it was baseless. in a statement, here s what he had to say. th lawsuit is baseless. mayor adams says nothing about the commerce claus, if the mayor persists in the lawsuit he may be held accountable for his violations. strong words. he s now sent over 90,000 migrants to cities like new york, boston, chicago, l.a. and others. julia, thank you for that. okay, paul, governor abbott says, invokes the constitution, every migrant bussed or flown to new york did so voluntarily, and they have a constitutional right to travel. what does the law say?
pressure he may have faced, how much was justice roberts influenced by outside pressure? cbs said this, quote, over the next six weeks as roberts began to craft a decision striking down the mandate, the external pressure began to grow. roberts almost certainly was aware of it. he pays attention to made yeah cover. he s keenly aware of his role in the court and he s sensitive to how his court is perceived in the public. does it make sense to you that perhaps he took one for the team? you have charles on the left saying this is why roberts may have taken this path. it s plausible, but i don t see this as some kind of capitulation to pressure because if you read this bundle of opinions carefully, you ll see that roberts accomplished many of the conservative movement s long term objectives. enshrining this narrower view of the commerce claus, getting a 7-2 ruling that it s expansive, which they can use a lot in the future, and there are two liberal justices who seem to
affordable care act from stealing your freedom. they will fight it in the states. states can t actually overturn federal law, but they can maybe, possibly be convinced to refuse to go along with it. that s what the republicans are trying to do. michele bachmann has joined 12 republican senators and 60 republican house members to send a letter to all of the house members, asking them, begging them not to cooperate with the affordable care act. it says the supreme court has ruled significant parts of the medicaid expansion of the president s health care law unconstitutional as well as ruling that an individual mandate violated the commerce claus. as members of the commerce, we re dedicated to the full repeal and we ask you to join us to oppose its implementation. a quick note on that letter. that s not really how i remember the supreme court ruling because i remember them ruling the mandate is constitutional and the medicaid expansion is