government on the ground of reasonableness. the most recent example pl being netanyahu and one of his allies becoming minister of finance, but he s been convicted of tax fraud and the supreme court ruled harule t ruled had that was unreasonable and in the future the supreme court wouldn t be able to do such a thing. and so this is the reading of the bill. and so many have requested time to speak on this legislation that it is expected to last some 26 hours. and so no voting expected up monday or tuesday. and while all of that is going on inside, out on the streets there is also drama which thousands upon thousands, growing every day, of protestors have been marching on jerusalem, they are trying to form a human chain for the 1 1/2 kilometres or so of distance between the
here is president biden after the decision came down. dissent states in the decision rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. end quote. i break with tf agree with thatm the dissent. the court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions and i strongly, strongly disagree with the court s decision. jasmine wright is live in washington, d.c. for us. we re learning how the white house has been preparing for the ruling. reporter: yeah, even as just as late as last year, president biden publicly expressed optimism at the fact hoping that the supreme court wouldn t rule in this way. behind the scenes white house officials have been meeting for weeks before the decision really trying to plan for contingencies. it included meetings with civil rights organizations, legal organizations, universities as well as meeting with the department of education really
leaving no one behind. we ve never lived up to it but have never walked away from it. we will not walk away from it now. even as president biden expressed optimism the supreme court wouldn t rule this way, white house officials have been preparing for this outcome. today, we heard at least one of those directives the president is issuing, urging the department of education to begin compiling a list of best practices for how colleges an universities can ensure they have diverse classes through add miss. and the president today explaining he believes that new standard that is now required is talking about adversity. looking at financial means, geographic location of some of these students and other standards like that. but the president made very clear in response to a question from our colleague that he doesn t believe this is a quote normal supreme court and the president in a sequence in interview expanded on that, saying he believes this court has done more to unravel basic rights
i said are you out of your f ing mind and he said words to the effect of there s been violence in the history of our country to protect the democracy or protect the republic we had an extended discussion, an hour and a half to two hours on january 5th and when i pressed him on the point, i said, john, if the vice president did what you re asking him to do, we would lose 9-0 in the supreme court wouldn t we? and initially he started, well, i think maybe he would lose 7 huf7-2 and then he said, yeah, we would lose 9-0 i listened no a few times this appears to be sworn testimony of eastman s knowledge of the unconstitutionality of the eastman plot which is coined a blueprint for a coup it is also clear from the testimony that those individuals listed that trump and pence are in the room when they have this
criticizing the covid policies of that particular town. the city manager then blocked that user. interestingly, this was a different outcome in the ninth circuit. the sixth circuit said because the city manager was operating only in his personal capacity, he did not violate the first amendment as it came to his government duties. there s really a circuit split here. that s why the supreme court has taken up this case. something to work out, clearly. they haven t dealt, the supreme court, specifically with this issue. have they dealt with social media anywhere close to this sphere? there have been a number of cases that have come possibly before the supreme court, but they were able to punt on a few of these issues, including the 2021 case where the former president had blocked users from his twitter account. they didn t end up deciding the case because at the point when it came to them, donald trump was a former president. they were able to say, okay, it s no longer applicable, it