mandates or requirements for vaccines to travel, mask mandates, potentially even having to go to school having vaccination efforts. a carrots and sticks approach by the public and private sectors and biden fully leveraging the power of the presidency to communicate to certain segments of the unvaccinated population about it need to just do it for the sake of our country. i agree with nick this is going to take systemic solutions and there are individuals in the same position you found yourself in months ago where they re pleading with a loved one to take this seriously. what is your message to them? well, first and foremost they re not alone and it s not their fault, nor is it their responsibility to overcome the systemic barriers. it needs an all-community approach right now. so my recommendation to folks out there that were in my position is to reach out and
that case made abortion legal in the united states. but this week the state attorney general reversed course, arguing roe should indeed be overturned. joining us now to discuss the politics at play, msnbc legal analyst melissa murray. she was a former law clerk to justice sonia sotomayor and nick ra thad. how could this case potentially alter reproductive rights in the united states? mississippi has offered the court two different paths for dismantling reproductive rights, which is where the fetus can be outside the womb. you can regulate post-viability. mississippi asked the court to do away with that. the more maximalist approach that mississippi offered to the court is to completely overrule its existing precedence, roe
which would limit the use of viability but would surely send reproductive rights in many of those red states into disarray. nick, we know a majority of americans support access to abortion in most cases. how is this case going to factor into 2022? it s a really great question. i mean, first of all we have the supreme court actually, let me step back. so this is the culmination of years of organizing and work done by conservatives for their eye has always been on this particular case, i think, and trying to overturn roe v. wade. they were able to get a court stack during the trump years to set this up and set is situation up where we re in currently. but this could also backfire on them politically because millions of women, millions of men out in the country are watching this, and we know we believe that this case is sacrosanct, and i know we ll hit
across the country in majorities and the courts. as these things happen, it s a one-two punch where the legislators are passing and moving legislation that is conservative oriented, like this one, and then the courts are blessing it. now that they have the supreme court, you know, there s a real threat. and so democrats need to wake up and actually take and follow some of the playbook of conservatives on this and start reinvesting our actually investing in those places. we re going to stay on this story. melissa and nick, thank you both so much. next, beto o rourke takes his fight for voting rights to the streets. he s here to tell us about the selma-style march he s planning. plus, a problem that cannot be ignored. my take on america s child care crisis and what needs to be done. also, our loudest voices of the week, the call for freedom from cuba. first to richard lui with a look at the big stories we re watching this hour on msnbc. richard? alicia, good day to you.
the streets and organize if there s even if the court decides to move in this direction. and we will be flooding the streets come election time to make sure that we get back what has traditionally been a very sacrosanct constitutional position. nick, you have to admit republicans have successfully transformed the court. they have made it a key issue for voters. how do democrats counter the success that they ve had? well, it s organizing and investing at the state and local levels, honestly. conservatives have done a great job at stacking the courts. they focused their energy and their time, and we just don t do that. we focus a lot on policy-making. we spend a lot of political capital there. but if you watch the conservatives, that s what they do. they pivot, they stack the courts, they focus on state and local governments. and you see that playing out here where they ve now have control of state governments