meanwhile the doj investigation is heating up tonight. the lawyer who told then president trump that mike pence could single handedly block certification of the election, spoiler alert, he could not, that lawyer john east man says the fbi seized his phone and got access to his e-mail account. here s the video. and it happened the same day the feds raided the home of jeffrey clark the former doj official who pushed trump s false election fraud claim. more to come on all of that. plus chaos and confusion across the country in the wake of the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. more and more states rushing to ban abortion. the latest, south carolina. a federal judge today allowing the state to ban abortions beginning around six weeks. that makes at least ten states with bans or severe restrictions. another 14 where bans and severe restrictions are certain or likely. so in nearly half the country, nearly half the country, a right that americans have had for 50 years is vanis
there might be five votes for overruling it. and thomas said he s already one of them. if you look at the three trump appointees and look at alito. you can get to five quickly on that. why doesn t he feel the same about interracial marriage? well, let s not be coy about that. everybody knows he s married to a white woman. and so some people think he s not talking about loving vs. virginia. the interracial case. in his defense, that case was also about privacy. like the abortion cases. but it also had a racial dimension which makes it a somewhat different due process case. still didn t mention it. i know. i m trying to be fair here. loving was a couple years before roe. it was a conspicuous absence. you can articulate a reason why it s different. let s talk about a new cbs news poll finds that 59% of
rewarding rhenquist. how does he go against roe v. wade? when it would pass his standard. fair question. he praises it. for stemming the tide against this flow of rights. this is basically the sort of whole rational for the federalist society existing. this whole conservative movement of which it is now sort of having its climax moment. where it could retake the court and swing the far right for a generation. they believe there was sort of all the efforts to desegregate schools and creating women s rights. and loving vs. virginia. interracial marriage. it s a wink wink. the timing of it came a couple months before he was added to the short list. he was not on the original short list in 2016. these guys including kavanaugh were openly auditioning.
when he said an oral argument that this case of obergefell and the board of the gay rights movement as was done to brown. he compared this case before us today to loving vs. virginia, the 19 67 case, the right to engage in an interracial marriage 16 states at the time when it was decided. very very analogous in terms of the numbers to what happened today. i think more importantly, melissa, this is not only about liberty but equality and the two things interlocked and chief justice warren s opinion this is not only about the freedom to marry, not only the right of equality it s about everybody. he made the two things come together. i think that this opinion wasn t
who are prepared to strike it down. the problem is the middle, justice kennedy, who is the key vote here. he s the author of the two most important gay rights rulings in the court s history, for whatever reason isn t ready to go there. rob reiner, how important has hollywood been? has hollywood played the same role on same-sex marriage that baseball basically played on integration when they were essentially a decade ahead of the country s politicians on civil rights? all in the family did the first ever show featuring a homosexual character. i don t know about whether or not hollywood has played a role or not, but, you know, here is the thing. we re talking about a civil right. i mean, to talk about, you know, polls and public opinion when it comes to civil rights, you know, where was the public? like you said in loving vs. virginia are where was the public and our founding fathers when they said slavery was okay