ahead. i ll speak with the family of paul weiland, another american, the kremlin has locked up on espionage charges and a group of military families gets the tragic news. nine service members killed when two black hawk choppers crashed. cnn has a crew right near that save. plus tension in the house from paper tossing to hallway shouting in your face. debates are getting heated on the hill. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. top u . s. officials are strongly criticizing russia after an american reporter was detained on charges of spying. evan gersh covic appeared in a moscow court today accused of trying to steal russian state secrets. his employer, the wall street journal, says it quote vehemently denies those claims. but now gorshkov itch faces up to 20 years in prison. and today , lawmakers on capitol hill are accusing russia of using this journalist as leverage, and the white house is dismissing the charges.
court, which so rarely we get an insight into so tell us more about this. okay so the chief dissents from the 2015 obergefell ruling and he s so angry that he descends from the bench, and it s the first time ever that he does that. and he says, you know, just who do we think we are doing? this one state legislature should do this if they re going to have any kind of right to same sex marriage. but then, just two years later, he privately worse with anthony kennedy, who was the author of the obergefell ruling to gay rights decisions. in one he joins with kennedy to uphold the interests of two lesbian women who want both names on a birth certificate of their baby in arkansas compromises there to go with kennedy within separately, kennedy does something for him. and decides that he will vote to hear this case of a colorado baker, who d been sanctioned for refusing to bake a cake for a gay couple. so how common are these kinds of trade offs? pam
i guess the pubs a little less rowdy today. nobody wants awe beer shortage ever. and it is not carbon dioxide. it is god. beer is that special it has to be a higher power. you re on a roll this morning, berman. i didn t get much sleep last night. andy scholes, thank you very much. we have been talking about the retirement of anthony ken de. he was the key vote and wrote the pps on the most important gay rights decisions the last several decades. we re going to get reaction from one of the people at the center of one of those cases next. we rm one of the people at the center of one of those cases next. how do you become america s best-selling brand? by opening new doors to big possibilities with the first ever ford ecosport. woman: my niece maria. maria: hi! woman: perfection!
actually would be a conservative and a stronghold and consistent one, not a swing vote. jeffrey, give us the big picture, how unflewentiinfluent. justice kennedy controlled the outcome in so many cases, whether it was abortion rights, whether it was bush v. gore where he essentially delivered the presidency to george w. bush, affirmative action, saving it last year and of course all of the gay rights decisions including a 5-4 decision directing that all 50 states have to have same-sex marriage. and this week with the travel ban case. the court followed kennedy s
vote and that vote is now going to be a solid conservative vote. citizens united as well. the thing is liberals want to talk about his gay rights decisions, but there was citizens united, there was bush v. gore, there was the travel ban case. he s mostly been conservative. though he was the decisive vote on same-sex marriage, on abortion rights for women, on affirmative action. he was the decisive vote on that. it was interesting to see what mike pence said today. once they get a nominee, you re going to start to hear the fairytale, oh, he s really a moderate. let s remember what mike pence said today. they re not going to pick a moderate. you look at the 25 name there. there s not a moderate on this list. this is a list designed to pick a justice who will overturn roe versus wade. the truth of the matter is the democrats don t have any