call 1-800-miracle today and experience the miracle-ear advantage for yourself. an alarming new instance of vaccine disinformation where you night not have expected it, contained within a federal judge s momentous decision striking down an assault weapons ban in california. here s the baseless claim from u.s. district judge roger benitez, which is, once again, we emphasize, a lie. quote, the evidence described so far provides that the harm of an assault rifle being used in a mass shooting is infinitesimally rare event. more people have died from the covid-19 vaccine than from mass shooting in california. now, he provides zero evidence and zero citation. our washington post friend and colleague, erin blake, points out this. the cdc hasn t established a so-called causal link between deaths and the vaccine, but he notes, quote, the cdc has linked
the president s personal lawyer has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but there are a number of troubling signs for him. let s begin with cnn s suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill. reporter: good morning, john, a federal judge ruling on a key issue in the middle of the impeachment inquiry, and house democrats are now seizing on this. they hope this compels key witnesses to testify later on and the chair of the house intelligence committee adam schiff yesterday sending a letter to house lawmakers saying he s not ruling the out the potential for additional witnesses and depositions. a federal judge ruling don mcgahn must testify before congress, delivering a blow to president trump s efforts to stone wall the impeachment inquiry. the decision striking down the trump administration s previous claims that officials are immune are from complying with house subpoenas. in a scathing 118 page decision, the u.s. district judge writing
idea that the whole law would fall because the individual mandate is now unconstitutional. so intertwined in the law and congress may not have intended it to be struck out as a piece and keep everything else. the problem is in 2012 in the case went to the supreme court, that view that the whole law should be struck down was held by the four dissenters. kennedy, thomas, alito, scalia. that means, i think, it s likely to fail on appeal because, as you said, in the report for the justices, the five justices in the majority who upheld obamacare who rejected the severability argument are still there on the floor. chief justice roberts is avoiding to make a sweeping decision striking down the whole law which led him to uphold obamacare twice to the disappointment to me and many other conservatives. shannon: that s true. you know a number of groups are weighing in. outside groups too, the
gone now. severability is difficult. i have a lot of sympathy for the idea that the whole law would fall because the individual mandate is now unconstitutional so intertwined in the law, congress may not have intended it to be struck out as a peace and keep everything else. the problem is in 2012 when this case went to the supreme court, that view that the law should be struck down was held by the four dissenters, kennedy, thomas and alito and scully are. that means that it is likely to fail on appeal because the as you said in the report four of the justices, five justices in charge what obamacare, rejected the severability argument are still there on the court and chief justice roberts is likely to avoid wanting to make a sweeping decision striking down the whole law which led him to uphold obamacare twice to the disappointed of me and many
gingrich. i still remember where i was when i heard ted kennedy s speech. and it was an offensive speech. it was so over the top. it was so hateful. and it did. it elevated supreme court picks on to a level they had never been elevated to before. and democrats followed up, then going after clarence thomas. and then we were off to the races. so kennedy of course was a deciding swing vote on the court when he voted with the four conservative justices, the court upheld the trump travel ban, gutted the voting rights act and allowed corporate money in politics. and he voted with progressives, also his 2015 decision striking down state bans against same-sex marriage. so, tom, what are the areas that we should expect to see the biggest shift?