faith is losing the belief in god. it is so common for priests to have a crisis of faith, that they have a term for it. and we have a process to deal with it. priests leave their priestly duties temporarily, until the crisis of faith passes. or permanently if it doesn t. i ve been experiencing a crisis of faith for the last year or so, and have not known quite what to say about it or who to talk to about it. here are priests who specialist in counseling catholic priests who are count experiencing a crisis of faith. but i m not sure who to turn to for my crisis of faith. it is a crisis of faith in what has been a god-like presence in my life. when i was baptized into the catholic faith at birth, my father was a boston police officer. by the time i was in high school, learning about a catholic priest having a crisis of faith, my father was a lawyer. he had already argued and won a case in the united states supreme court. i was there in the supreme court that day when my father
effectuate and helped get which is put to death. and when i highlighted those pieces of the leak opinion, i actually thought, well that will be delighted in the final opinion. they are not going, to a leader was not going to put up not gonna put up a final opinion quoting the which lawyers of england. and their opinions about anything. they will be embarrassed by just the ridiculousness of that scholarship. but no, it is in, they re both of those old english which lawyers are in the alito opinion overturning roe v. wade. i mean, we have seen this and you mentioned it as well. we have seen this in this term and the previous term, the court using, very clearly simply is working backwards from a conclusion.
trading between then and now. justices write opinions. sometimes they continue to keep a majority of the court. sometimes a justice reads it and says actually, you know, i can t go along with this. so we re now in this sort of period of negotiations, of draft writings. one thing we can be almost sure of is that the leak opinion that we have all read, which was dated february, is probably obsolete by now. it has been overtaken by new versions, by things that other justices want, by responding to dissents from it. so, we re still at the point where that writing is going on and these various versions are being traded among the justices. obsolete, but do you think the crux of it still holds? you do report the five conservatives aren t squishy in their positions and they still don t seem like they want to switch to the side of roberts. our reporting now is that
this potential nationwide ban? good morning katie. that interview with usa today minority leader mitch mcconnell said quote, if the leak opinion becomes the final opinion, legislative body is not only at the state level but at the federal level certainly could legislate in that area. that his when he said to usa today. if you come as no surprise to anybody who has been following this story this week that the republican leader would have these thoughts and support these are ideas of a national abortion ban. 13 states around the country all the of trigger laws that would make abortion illegal, should this opinion become final and be fully released. other states are certainly working towards that and. that is for senate democrats come in here. on wednesday they are going to be holding a vote in the senate to codify roe v. wade. they need 60 votes to pass. they don t believe they are going to get those 60 votes. majority leader chuck schumer has a plan there. that is to get every single
the next months, all the way through november. no one gets to hide democrats don t have the votes for this to pass. and republican susan collins is, well, already reportedly a no. over at the white house, the president and his team are weighing their next steps. the washington post is reporting that the administration s options to guarantee abortion rights are-limited. even so, attorney general merrick garland said that the justice department was ready to act if the high court does overturn roe v. wade. the justice department has steadfastly been committed to defending the right to abortion. if the law changes, we will address appropriate next steps at that time. but what will not change is our commitment to defending the rights of women and all americans. meanwhile, first lady joe biden is speaking out about the draft leak opinion in an interview with simone sanders. as a grandmother, what would