in the 50/50 position this is a minority-controlled government, this is the product of that. it also raises the question as to, how the court is perceived. the reason that stare decisis is, it s maybe not when you learn day one of kid law school but it s maybe day to. part of the legitimacy of the court is that the court compounds the idea of the legitimacy of the role of lava respecting past president. and to have thrown out established super precedents, in casey and in a row here, the way that this draft opinion is written, is to say that there is nothing that any court has previously done there s nothing that any supreme court that has previously arrived that that deserves respect and even with as you say, justices that are
0 again, it has been a remarkable hour. this is groundbreaking reporting from politico.com. josh goldstein, alexander ward. they have obtained i can t even, i still caught sounds crazy to hear the words coming from my mouth. they ve obtained a graph maturity opinion from the supreme court. this is not a ruling that has been issued, but it is been drafted by conservative justice samuel alito which overrules roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey, full stop and completely. and with an exclamation point. effectively clearing the way for republican controlled states and any future republican controlled congress at white house to flat out and completely ban abortion in this country, making it illegal without constraint. we re fundamentally changes as the country, it will fundamentally change the relationship between women and the government. it will fundamentally change the future of every girl in the country, for all our daughters and granddaughters, and women that come after
jean mancini will be joining us live. john: we go to our chief legal couldn t respondent who is at the steps of the supreme court arguments wrapped up a short-term go. the protests continue. good afternoon, shannon. we understand there were some arrests not far from us not short time ago. inside the court, there were heated moments as well. a big focus on the concept of precedence. do they stand because shark one can the supreme court overruled him? would they be eligible at this point to be overturned or should they be left alone as super precedents as they are often called? glad of that conversation conversation today and it sounde conservative justice would be in support of the mississippi law which bans after 15 weeks. most of them. there are some exceptions. it s something to be willing to uphold the law.
the arguments that are going to happen before the supreme court. if you read the constitution, there is nowhere in the constitution that prohibits individual states, states like mississippi, to limit access to abortion and the far left loves to scream my body my choice and what i would submit to you, chuck, is they absolutely ignore the fact that in getting an abortion there is an actual killing of an innocent unborn child. sofia. okay. well, legally speaking, he has no idea what he s talking about. the reality is is that roe versus wade is the governing law of this nation right now. abortion is allowed. it is a federal law which takes precedent over and preempts state law, which is why i was shocked to see the direction that the court has been moving towards because if you believe in super precedents like brown versus the board of education,
president could delay an election. does the constitution give the president of the united states the authority to unilaterally delay a general election under any circumstances? does federal law? if i give off the cuff answers, then i would be basically a legal pundit and i don t think we want judges to be legal pundits. reporter: the constitution is clear. congress sets the date of the election. on the court ruling guaranteeing same sex couples the right to marry, she said this. i m not going to give, as justice kagan put it, a thumb s up or thumb s down to any particular precedent. it is precedent of the supreme court that gives same sex couples the right to marry. reporter: on a woman s right to choose to have an abortion under roe versus wade, barrett in the past has listed a number of cases she believes are super precedents, ones that can t be overruled, and roe wasn t one of them. is roe a super precedent? roe is not a super precedent because calls for its overruling