litigation. justice thomas has invited more litigation in his concurrence around questions involving same-sex marriage and contraception. i m sure we will see some developments on that front in the future. this is not a court that is necessarily a one fell swoop kind of intervention, like they do things in increments. we saw this just last week with their ruling on the maine case regarding tuition payments to religious schools. that s a decision that was basically four or five years in the making overthree opinions. this will be the same case. we ll have this return to the states but we re also going to see a lot of other litigation to follow about the scope and substance of this ruling, and whether or not its implications are going to be as far reaching as some in the conservative legal movement would like. dahlia, is this something you are forecasting we re going to be seeing in short order? i believe so. i think it s very, very clear that this was not the end game. this was the
the white house. josh, how is the white house reacting? well, so far, there has not been a response from the white house to this ruling. jose, we have asked the white house whether we should expect to see president biden speak on this issue today. we have not gotten an answer yet, but we are hearing from another president, former president barack obama, who has just tweeted that today the supreme court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues. former president obama going on to say this decision today attacks the essential freedom of millions of americans. but in the meantime, jose, the biden white house has been preparing for the possibility of this ruling today literally for months. even before that leaked draft ruling that seems to point towards what ultimately happened today. and the white house is expected to respond to today s ruling by doing whatever it can to t
the justice says one result of today s decision is certain. the curtailment of women s rights and of their status as free and equal citizens. and what this decision means is that you no longer have a right to an abortion in any of the 50 states if a state legislature wants to take that away from you, put you in jail or put those who assist you in obtaining an abortion in jail, they can do so. this is a complete flip from 50 years of a guaranteed constitutional right to women. it is as grave and dramatic a step as the united states supreme court has ever taken in our lifetimes. joyce vance, give us some context on that. that is an extraordinary thing that neal is talking about. it really is taking back precedent for more than 40 years. in this country, we re so used to the courts as the guarantor of our civil rights. when states prohibited black people from voting in the south,
bipartisan vote on it in the house. we congratulate the senate on the work that they have done, and the timeliness of it to be passed in the senate in a strong bipartisan day on a day when the court made such a dangerous, dangerous decision. we will however, house democrats proposal, that are included in this package are that, keep deadly weapons out of dangerous hands by encouraging states to establish extreme risk protection border laws, otherwise known at red flag law. help end straw purchases, close the boyfriend loophole. so many good things are in, there and it s not everything that we wanted. we must keep moving towards background checks, but universal background checks, which will save the most lives, but this will save lives. so listen to lucy mcgrath and
national personhood standard or whether it s as melissa just said, starting to unravel obergefell and lawrence and other protections for lgbtq americans, whether it s a tax on contraception which we re already seeing. we re already seeing in states that are sweeping in certain forms of contraception as abortivephasia. and one other point i want to make to dovetail was melissa said, the notion that just 24 hours ago, the court found that the right to own a gun, to carry a gun out on the street is so fundamental that it cannot be left to the states to sort it out, and yet today, we find out that the right to be a woman and make a decision as a pregnant person about your own body is something that can cavalierly be disposed of as states see fit is such, such a shocking, shocking