into acting as though they are congress itself. this far right extremist, imbalanced supreme court that seeks to make history for all the wrong reasons. this is if they were a caucus in congress, they would be the bootstraper, forced birth, don t say gay caucus. i hope very strongly that the president s next steps does what is necessary to cancel student debt. gillian: within hours the court s decision the president said he would seek to cancel student debt through an alternative legal authority called the 1965 higher education act. that law would be used, he says, to enable some loan forgiveness to still fulfill his promise to millions of american students. defender of the debt relief work around explained his support right after nancy pelosi said the new plan would need congressional approval as well. the argument the court is making the heroes act does not give the president the authority to rewrite student loans. in fact, this was a position essentially that was
life. how are democrats responding? biden cabinet secretary pete buttigieg and congresswoman alexandra ocasio-cortez join me next. and holding court. as republicans celebrate conservative rulings, trump takes credit. is that enough to make voters overlook their concerns? he s getting cornered. we need leaders that are willing to be bold, that are going to be honest. republicans candidates chris christie and will hurd join me to respond in moments. plus, justice for whom. new attacks from top gop candidates on minority rights. instead of taking children to church, they believe in taking children to drag shows. but are they out of step with voters? our political panel will discuss. hello. i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is divided, 6-3. key decisions by the supreme court this week once again upended american life, with a trio of sweeping rulings that divided americans and moved the country to the right, prompting far-reaching consequenc
politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonight s lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roe s reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justice
sandra smith. some are forced to drive to their destination instead. with 43 million americans expected to travel throughout the week, are the roads ready. bryan: jeff flock is heading down the pennsylvania turnpike as we speak. jeff, what are you seeing out there? you know, i don t think i ve ever seen a holiday travel day that s been any calmer and better than this. take a look at the pennsylvania turnpike. we are just approaching valley forge, which is appropriate, general washington spent some time there in 1777, but it s clear out here now, despite the fact that we are facing, we think, according to the aaa, at least, record travel both by car and by air. take a look at the numbers. 50 million people, they say, aaa. bigger than at any time pre-pandemic. 43 million of those as you point out by car. and you know, the numbers really seem to bear that out. if you look at the tsa checkpoint numbers, they came out this morning from the department of transportation. they sa
wedding websites for same sex couples. an application of the first amendment to civil rights law that could affect public accommodations perhaps even gay marriage access for many minority groups. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington where the supreme court just ended its urm with a conservative super majority flexing its muscle once again. this morning striking down the student loan forgiveness program with the chief justice writing in part the secretary of education asserts the heroes act. in a second major ruling today but perhaps even more far ranging consequences down the road the six conservatives, gorsuch writing the opinion saying the first amendment rights of a colorado website designer give her the freedom to refuse from accepting same sex couples from her business. in this case justice sotomayor read aloud a strongly worded dissent from the bench to emphasize her strong disagreement. writing in part, lgbt people have existed for all of human history. and as s