beliefs. another day of decisions split 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court in an opinion by chief justice john roberts the majority struck down the biden administration s plan to wipe out $430 billion until student loan debt. quote, we hold today that the act allows the education secretary to wave or modify existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the education act. not to rewrite that statute from the ground up. the dissenters led by justice kagan argued the secretary did have that power. quote the statute read as written gives the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrowers abilities to repay their student loans. president biden who has repeatedly vowed to wipe out student loan debt while conceding he may not have authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. in today s oth
on the eve of the first anniversary of the dobbs decision overturning roe v. wade, conservatives like mike pence say they want to further crush reproductive rights. it will be pardon to say it was rigged with a trump friendly judge. what kinds of an edge do those two facts give the former president? good evening. i m ali velshi filling in for joy reid. we begin with post roe america. one year ago the supreme court ruled in dobbs v. america. the ruling overturned roe v. wade, the law of the land for 50 years, and remains as unpopular as ever. today major 2024 gop contenders shared the stage at the faith and freedom coalition conference to push more restrictions on abortion. thank god almighty for the dobbs decision. we are creating a culture of life in america. i will sign a federal law to restrict abortion as well as president of the united states. we must not rest and must not relent until we restore the sanctity of life to the center of american law in every state i
the majority in 2023, various leaders of the house and its committees have discardd the established protocols of congress rules of conduct and even the law in what can only be called an obsession with attacking the biden family. meanwhile smith s office calls the letter misleading and vows to continue the investigation. shannon. all right, david, we will rely on you to keep us updated. thanks so much. you bet. stocks were up, the dow gained 285, the s&p 500 finished ahead 54, nasdaq jumped 19. for the week the dow gained two percentage points ts&p 500 was up 2 1/3, nasdaq rose 2.5. apple now the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value. apple shares finished up 2.3% to just under $194 bringing its market value to
to mark an anniversary none of us hoped we would be marking. joe biden said if congress rules across the country, he will veto it. i think wart of the problem is democrats roe versus wade, while it projected our rights, it allowed a lot of people, although reproductive rights groups and feminists said this was what they were plan to go do, said they were going to do, until it really happened a year ago, a lot of people didn t take this seriously so there wasn t much momentum, for example, for obama to codify r senate.
Under the modified open rule, which hasn’t been used by the House in seven years, any member is permitted to propose an amendment so long as they are submitted one day before the legislation is introduced on the House floor.