the scene there to disperse demonstrators. in eugene, oregon, a crowd got rowdy. they used pepper spray to break up the crowd and arrested ten people. as of now 13 states have trigger laws banning abortions in light of this ruling and an abortion ban is already in effect in at least six states. let s go to some of the protests. polo sandoval in new york. and let s go to joe johns first outside the supreme court. i know it s been very busy outside the supreme court, joe. what are you seeing right now? reporter: it is, jim. this crowd has just built and built and built throughout the afternoon. let s take a look at the large number of people here in front of the united states supreme court. the speakers expressing everything from anger and shock and fear about the future, of course, the vast majority of the people here are supporters of abortion rights. there were a few people who were opponents of abortion rights, but they got into what you call verbal altercations with some
it s confusing. justice samuel alito said this issue is going back to states. we know that 26 states will soon, if they haven t already banned abortion. some of those states had these laws on the books before roe. those went back into effect. others has trigger laws. laws that would be triggered to go into effect if roe were to go down. each state, the trigger law goes into effect at a different time. that s why we re seeing confusion nationwide. there s one other fascinate thing going on. just a couple of hours ago, planned parenthood staid it was going to state court in utah because it was going to challenge utah s trigger law by saying that it violated the state s constitution. the reason i keep emphasizes the word state is this is no longer in the federal arena. e everything is happening in the state and that will be a big lawsuit to watch. it s really changing the legal terrain. that is fascinating. wh a twist. what let s take a look at that. i do not have a positi
as the crowd size swelled and tempered flared. police say demonstrators were refusing to follow orders to stay off the road and several tried to interfere when an arrest was made. and in oregon pepper spray was used to disperse dozens of people. ten were arrested. in rhode island a fight broke out among protesters. police say off duty an off duty officer and state senate candidate punched his political rival, jennifer rork. she says it happened as she attempted to deescalate the situation. we have reportered on the kr ground covering on the latest. let s go to the u.s. supreme court first. we ve been seeing crowds swelling. how does it look today, this sunday? reporter: that s right. we certainly have. we re in the shadow of the supreme court here as you can see there is a large and very vocal crowd behind me. it has been growing slowly all day. and this frankly is the scene that we have seen outside of the supreme court for the last three days since that ruling came
we begin with sunlen who is outside the supreme court. what are you seeing? reporter: jim, it certainly is a very tense moment right here on the steps of the supreme court. i want to show you the scene playing out now at this moment. i ll take you to the crowd here in the last few minutes we ve seen really this conversation between both sides break out. the police have moved in some barricades, some police fences and they have separated the two sides. over here you have a side who is not in support of friday s supreme court decision and over here pro-life and we have seen them yelling back and forth. i want to just give you a flavor of the crowd at the moment out here on the steps of the supreme court. abort the court. abort the court. reporter: although they are vocal and loud and are certainly taking issue with each other we have seen these protests remain largely peaceful throughout the day, jim. we are seeing this crowd swell in size a couple hundred out here tod
had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision. they just took the last of it and set a torch to it with the roe vs. wade opinion. but republicans are claiming a major victory and giving one man the credit. this is a huge victory for the pro-life movement. president trump deserves the lion s share of credit here. he fought like a tiger to put three constitutional conservative judges on the court. and outside the supreme court keeping an eye on the protests for us, what are you seeing today? reporter: jim, it is emotional and at times tense here down at the base of the supreme court. as you can see behind me there is a large crowd that has gathered and it s grown in size over the course of the day. i ll give you just a flavor from the streets as you see a lot of protesters in opposition. the majority of people out here today in opposition of that ruling that came down on friday against roe, but we have seen some tense moments wher