wheels and realize this is the price we pay for living in the united states mostly because of the enshrinement of our gun culture as the second amendment has been interpreted by the supreme court. the second amendment reads as follows a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. i think it s pretty straightforward that those 27 words are not to be farced and must be read as a complete thought. immediately post revolutionary war, the idea was that militias needed to keep and bear arms. otherwise, it would simply have read the right of the people to bear arms should not be infringed. where the days of long-regulated militias are long gone, so, too, are any unfettered right to keep and bear arms. well that s not how supreme saw it in the 2008 heller case. justice scalia wrote for a 5-4
and once again, she sort of been proven right there. and, ali, while all this is happening, the senate is voting to move forward on a bill that would codify protections for interracial marriages. remind us what this legislation would do. yeah this is something that is sort of brought over from the period of time in congress here before the before we enter the lame duck now. this period of time after the midterm elections. yesterday the senate held a vote that was very telling. technically just a procedural measure to get them on to the ability to actually vote on the meat of this bill which would codify protections for same sex marriage. it wouldn t do what the decision did in the supreme court which is compel states to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. but it would offer federal protections for those licenses that have been issued in states that allow same sex marriage licenses to be issued. so again, the enshrinement of rights that could be on the table or on the cho
campaign rounds. the real clear politics has whitmer reading by 4.4 points. they re also on the ballot, a consequential referendum that will decide if abortion protections will be enshrinement in that state s constitution. and bc s shirt and julie welcome. tell me how voters are feeling about michigan essentially could becoming a ground zero in the fight for abortion rights? yeah, alex, that s exactly right. look, democrats see this elastic effort in the days leading up to election day in the fight to protect abortion rights in this country, and the point to the fact that many voters actually put a proposal three on the ballot, that measure that could potentially enshrine push abortion protection into michigan states constitution. indicative reasons that that measure will pass, and the democrats will store degrades up another tickets. but today, we have major, get out the vote efforts including all the presidents of the
there was no reaction from the chinese. they are reacting now because it s much closer to his enshrinement here in several weeks. that s what really happening. brian: momentum could be changing, some people say the new york times reports today in ukraine, back to the ukrainians, the russians have not made any significant gains since july 2nd, are you and the institute study of war under the belief that the ukrainians are set to make a major move or in the midst of a major move in kherson? yeah. absolutely. they have been planning this for weeks and preparing for it for the last few weeks. and now their counter offensive is underway. cutting the bridges off and seal off kherson from the south which is where the russians are resupplying it. kherson is a major strategic port. it s very close to crimea. this there is the first city that the russians grabbed. it will have strategic