swore to support and defend the constitution and, quote, administer justice. all the members of the court, i m pleased to welcome justice jackson to the court and to our common calling. cnn supreme court reporter ariane devogue is with us now. good to see you. before the swearing in, we saw two big decisions from the court. now, let s start on the decision, curbing the epa s powers to fight climate change. what s the impact? right. this was a significant opinion. basically saying, curbing the epa s authority here when it comes to power plants. it was broken down along ideological lines. chief justice john roberts delivering this big blow to president biden, and it comes, of course, as scientists are raising alarms about global warming. what chief justice roberts did is he reversed a lower court that had given the epa broad authority to regulate in this area, so to regulate the entire grid instead of specific improvements at specific power plants, but roberts said, look,
the years in safe gguarding the right in the way that you had republicans do that, and so now, there is a sense that this will be a motivating issue for democratic voters, particularly democratic base voters, suburban women, voters that tend to be sort of swing voters in midterms. that is the hope. but it isn t in the dna of the democratic party to kind of rally around abortion rights in the way it is in the dna of the republican party to really push back and try to end abortion rights. kaitlan, what about executive action? we know that the president s powers are limited here, but he told jimmy kimmel, i think three weeks ago, that there are executive order options they could employ. they re looking into that. at least they were at that time. has that talk deflated at the white house? reporter: well, the president said he would make an announcement after meeting with governors tomorrow. he didn t say when he would make an announcement or what that announcement will look like, becau
he does have, you know, these executive order options. i m not so sure that he s willing to actually execute on police reform with regards to the executive order, but certainly on voting rights he s already done it. he did it last year where he issued an executive order seeking to, you know, beef up the national voting website, to expand voting access for military members, and some other minor issues. he can do it again, but this time no more commissions, no more studying this or that. this is about actually having an executive order with some staying power that would actually make an immediate difference in the election of the 2022 and 2024. so things that he can possibly look at is, like, for example, in section 5 of nvra, national voter registration act that passed in 1993, there was a requirement that there be a simultaneous registration of