hours. here s wolf. happening now, breaking news. donald trump files a new brief urging the u.s. supreme court to reverse colorado s decision kicking him off the ballot. our legal experts are standing by with details on the filing and what it could mean for the truly historic oral arguments next month. also tonight nikki haley sharpens her attacks on her rivals just five days out from the new hampshire primary. haley going after donald trump for losing the white house and dragging down republicans while calling ron desantis invisible in the state. plus, the u.s. justice department releases a scathing report on the law enforcement response to the uvalde elementary school massacre. the attorney general merrick garland is speaking exclusively with cnn about fatal mistakes made by police. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the breaking news out of the u.s. supreme cou
tonight, protesters are out in the streets across the country, after the unprecedented supreme court decision, ending roe v. wade. 50 years after it became law. demonstrations have been growing ever since the ruling was announced this morning. five of the courts conservatives voted to overturn roe. samuel alito who is a draft opinion was leaked last month, wrote in his final decision that roe was egregiously wrong from the start. the ruling automatically clears the way for abortion bans in 13 states. at least six states have already put them into effect. and there are concerns about what this may mean for court decisions on contraception, and gay rights. justice clarence thomas says those should be up for review as well. we ve got a lot to cover tonight, but i want to begin with my friend and colleague, morrow barrick, our nbc news reporter. she s on the ground, at the supreme court, all day long. morrow, you have been among the protesters for hours. what are they telling you
closing up shop here for the night. but as for the first couple of hours, we saw that initial protest from those who are opposed to abortion rights, who were elated, and celebrating, and happy. and after a few hours, they left. the streets were filled with hundreds and thousands of people who were the ones that were hoping that maybe we would see a compromise. they were maybe hoping that it away, we re expecting to see this decision come down, it s not what they got today. we saw tears of joy and despair. we had very emotional heavy conversations. and we will hear some of those conversations, stephanie. a lot of things have been going through my mind, anger, deep sadness, and a desire to turn this around the. this is going through my mind. it s a rollercoaster emotion! it s completely utter joy that roe is overturned. women are going to die between now and when we get legislation passed, which is untenable. we heard a lot of concern around that last statement you hear
of the constitution all over this current supreme court. all three were nominated by president trump who promised that he would bring in conservative jurists. but at that point, the president could never have known that in one term he would have the opportunity to change the face of that court so dramatically. marc thiessen wrote this today. whatever else history says about trump, he secured his place as the most consequential president when it comes to the supreme court. today in reaction to this enormous seat change decision, nancy pelosi slamming the justices as right wing politicians a label that jonathan turley took deep offense too. a woman s fundamental health decisions are her own to make with consultation with her doctor, her faith, her family. not some right-wing politicians that donald trump and mitch mcconnell packed the court with. with that, we bring in ari fleischer, civil rights attorney and leo terrell and democratic strategist, jessica tarlov. let s st
millions of american women, no longer have the constitutional right to an abortion that has been their right for decades now and nearly half of all states women will soon find themselves without any access to an abortion, a 6-3 decision handed down in dobbs versus jackson women s health upholds mississippi s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, in a 5-4 majority went further completely striking down roe versus wade, written by justice samuel alito, it is similar to the draft opinion that leaked back in may. it reads in part, roe was egregiously wrong from the start and the decision was exceptionally weak. and the decision has had damaging consequences. with this decision, 13 states have already effectively ended abortion access. missouri s governor issued an order ending all elective abortions one hour after the supreme court decision was released. another 13 states will impose draconian restrictions on abortion. a decision that s consequential is of course, nothing