are all about on supreme court. that is what you heard in stark and i thought i think you used the right word, offensive language throughout the court s arguments today. but this is day that conservatives have been planning for a generation. yeah. they have picked people specifically to do this work. they are now here to do this work. and the person who looks like as much of an idiot as much as anybody today is susan collins who stood up there on the senate floor and promised us that brett kavanaugh of all people was going to respect precedent, that he was going to respect senate law, that he believed that roe v wade was senate law. and brett kavanaugh was the guy today who did all the work explaining why he should be able to disregard precedent because he didn t like how a previous case was decided. this was an insult to susan collins if you believed she was telling the truth when she defended the man a few years
nothing is off the table when it comes to fighting and controlling the spread of the coronavirus and the new variant that emerged this week. the president today outlining what is next in the fight against the pandemic. we will bring you that plus the upcoming senate primary in ohio. you haven t seen much of it. it is a battle as to who is the most trumpy in that field. and a new and trying way to make the points that gotten under donald trump s very, very thin skin. we will show it to you. later on in the show the potential of overturning of roe versus weighed and how it could put an end to the perception of the supreme court as independent and apolitical body. it could reshape the approach of the country s highest court and midterm elections. all of that and more coming up after the break of don t go anywhere. anywhere
access task force under the prochoice caucus. this is the first prochoice majority congress in the history of congress. elements have the house, the senate, and the white house. so if the courts are not going to be on the side of the people it is up to congress to meet the moment, this unprecedented moment with unprecedented leadership and with unprecedented legislating. the house passed the protection act whippa, we need the senate to take it up quickly and get it to the president s desk for signature codifying roe v weighed and on abouting harmful states bans like those in texas and mississippi. and we can t stop there. roe v weighed is really the floor. it is not the ceiling and this is the first time this 40 years that the house has passed a budget where the hyde amendment and the hounds amendment were stripped from all of our budgets. you know, a very big moment.
america, it appears that the conservative majority on the supreme court is willing to reduce you to a secondary constitutional citizen by decreeing the control over your very person, your physical body belongs not to you, but to your state. this morning, the court heard arguments in which they were asked to allow mississippi to uphold a ban on abortions after 15 weeks. the state also asked justices to overturn two major reproductive rights rulings, roe versus weighed and the court s 1992 decision in planned parenthood versus casey which said states could not impose an undue burden on the right to abortion before fetal viable. listening to the oral arguments it became clear that all six conservative justices were either openly or impolicitily interested in entertaining mississippi s request. if you were to prevail, the states didl majorities of
republican candidates. the worst thing you can say about a republican right now in 2021 is that they ll ban abortion. amy walter is a wise political voice. i want to play her comments on the bulwark podcast about just how motivating this issue could be. if ultimately what we get to is a situation where there is no constitutional right, and each and every state, then, makes its own rules on this, every single governor s race in the country is going to be a referendum on this issue. as well as the debates in congress. we are going to get an entire community of voters, most of whom that s not fair, not most of whom, but many of whom have never lived in a world without roe v. wade, to become engaged on this. and i do think it is going to be a an incredible motivating tool, not just for democrats