the pro-life movement of the united states has been waiting for for decades and they re moving incredibly fast. take neil s point that they moved a little incrementally for the first few months, but this is sort of lightning speed since they ve managed to gain majority on the court and they re going to change american life. this is why evangelical christians held their noses and stuck with donald trump. this is the court they wanted. but the numbers of people in america who still support roe v. wade has held consistently over the years and this is going to put the court in a tricky position because they re doing something that is very out of step with where america is. the truth abortion in america is it s economic. it s an economic issue and it s going to disproportionally affect minority women and poor women in this country and they won t feel this court is representing them. and if they wonder about people feeling like there was a
minute, roe s superprecedent, something we ve evaluated and studied for a long time. it s baked into the fabric of our law. can we overrule it. the problem is, this is why you hear so much despair from the pro-choice people today is that argument that he was making got very little traction with the court and certainly we couldn t count to five votes out of the nine justices to try and support it and indeed, a key vote, justice kavanagh appeared to basically dismiss that argument. and i guess we grapple with how extreme this court is and they seem to publicly grapple with how unpopular and low esteem with which they re held. i think six of them have made public comments viewed as political. the reason why is that kavanagh s so-called moderate approach is overturning roe v. wade in 26 states.
were about roe versus wade as precedent. it would be interesting to have the opportunity to ask samuel alito how the circumstances have changed since he was going through his confirmation hearing. what he seemed to be saying there is that you would need extraordinary circumstances to overturn the precedent. what s changed since his senate confirmation hearing? the only thing that has changed is that the court itself has changed. that you now have a decisively more conservative supreme court with more conservative supreme court justices who can overturn it. the circumstances in the country haven t changed. the number of abortions has not radically exploded in a way that would demand that the issue be revisited. so you know, you re right to put those clips together because what you re hearing today from the justices is certainly not what they were saying when they were facing senators in their confirmation hearings.
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oxford high school in michigan just about 24 hours ago. we will have more coverage of that later today here on msnbc. and on nbc nightly news. for now, deadline: white house will begin in just a moment. will begin in just a moment. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. today the u.s. supreme court seems poised to make history based on today s oral arguments in the mississippi abortion law case in terms of overturning the protections of roe versus weighed which nearly 50 years ago established a institutional right to abortion. the court s super majority of conservatives indicated today that they just might radically curb the rights of women in this country to make determinations over your own bodies and health. during oral arguments for mississippi s proposed 15-week abortion ban the six conservative justices on court asked questions that ran the