demonstrations in the coming days. people here are encouraged to come back tomorrow. all right. donee in d.c. let s head to los angeles where camilla is. we saw abortion rights supporters marching on the freeway there. what s the latest now, camilla? reporter: hey, don, we were on the freeway for about 15 or 20 minutes, but lapd officers sort of blocked the protesters from continuing to walk on the freeway and kind of push them back inside of downtown l.a. and that s where we are right now. the crowd is still fairly large as you can see. you can hear the cars honking. many people shouting. they are screaming and saying, you know, our body, our choice. they took a water break and just like in washington d.c. organizers here in l.a. also getting ready to do this all over again tomorrow. they are already organizing and saying they re going to gather in the afternoon and a lot of them just saying they want to call the attention to what is happening here in los angeles, in cal
when justice kennedy announced his retirement in 2018, this was jeffrey toobin s immediate reaction, watch. abortion will be illegal in a significant part of the united states in 18 months. there is just no doubt about that. and that is why these seats matter so much. somebody has the last word and here it s the supreme court and roe v. wade is doomed. it is gone because donald trump won the election. jeffrey, i remember when you said that. it was a little bit more than 18 months but it did happen. it did happen. i was thinking john will know these dates. may 17th, 1954, january 22nd, 1973 roe versus wade. we ll remember today because it s equally significant. we cover the news every day but only a hand full of days that we cover are truly historic and today is one, and it s a very
majority to allow more public funding at religious schools. he still has control but on this big one, this one most americans know about above anything else, he lost. right, no one knows more about john roberts than joan does and it is important that he not be portrayed as some sort of moderate, the next coming of anthony kennedy or sandra day o connor as joan said, in virtually every area of the law except abortion, he is either part of or the leader of the conservative side of the court. all right. thank you both. thank you, joan. thank you, jeffrey. thanks, don. clarence thomas writing that he wants to reconsider grizwald, lawrence, that s the case where the supreme court ruled same-sex couples had the constitutional right to marry.
trump was on timing, he got three appointees in just a single term the of course, the first one knneil gorsuch was because president obama blocked merrick garland to the scalia seat but to get three appoints in a single team is a big deal when you think how his predecessors barack obama and bill clinton, democrats served two terms each and only got two appointees. jimmy carter served for four years and got not a single one. donald trump had a disproportionate affect on this court and the republicans he chose are not like republicans from even just ten years ago, ten, 15 years ago compare these three appointees, brett kavanaugh, amy coney barrett and neil gorsuch to sandra day o connor, on anthony kennedy an warner burger who president nixon appointed as chief justice