seeks that? anyone who calls or wants to cooperate laura: of course she has. but we all still remember this moment in 2013. when president obama is warm words for kamala harris raised some eyebrows. private event, he said, she s brilliant and she s dedicated, she s tough. she also happens to be by far the best looking attorney general in the country. i am sure michelle was thrilled at that line. but there are other deep contacts at play. check this out, harris younger sister, maia, who was the former head of the northern california chapter of the aclu, is married to tony last. tony west was one of obama s ag eric holder s top lieutenants at the justice department. i would bet my bottom dollar, as my mom used to say, that team obama is advising harris and advising her to go really tough on her opponent, to be the fighter that hillary clinton was not, much of the obama s
i think this could be an inflection point. thank you very much. thank you for arousing all of our excitement for what we re going to see tonight. woohoo, fireworks, bring them on. there you go. the supreme court may issue opinions as early as today on two cases that have huge political implications. jessica, what might happen today? reporter: we are in the final few days of the supreme court s term, and of the eight remaining opinions there are two in particular that could prove consequential. the justice could weigh in today as whether or not the trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. this has been a fraught political issue. it s played out in the halls of congress and also in the lower courts. all of the justices have been weighing what to do here, and in particular the aclu has recently come up with what they say is a trove of documents they say proves there was a political motivation behind this push to the essential question.
the way they should have been. never the less it is an improvement. now we have dozens of organizations led by the aclu and the urban league and others that are making certain 159 county up to par. they re not tolerating any sort of voter suppression, they re going into the board of regis r registration and making sure they deliver a better system in 2020. we are there in 2020. so this is real and it is going to happen. we are going to replace senator mcconnell s leader. okay. very confident, coming out of the former mayor of columbia, georgia here. let s go to jamie here. you know your state and you know jim clyburn very well and
vote, 54% of the electorate electing record numbers of women, women of color to congress and all across the country. i think women, and not only women. obviously we re seeing corporations as well that are concerned about this. i think we are seeing women so fired up. we saw more than obviously huge demonstrations in missouri, more than 500 demonstrations last week. women realize that this is a real threat. and it s coming at a time, chris, where support for roe v. wade is higher than it s ever been. it does seem ultimately this will be decided in the courts, particularly these facial challenges, right? right. again, there is a very aggressive litigation strategy by planned parenthood, by the aclu, but there also has to be a political strategy. this has to be a moment that we re not going to go back on a right that people have had for more than 40 years. it is important that these
abortion. the lawsuit in alabama court order in mississippi and a brand-new law in mississippi. bringing us up to speed with everything that happened today. especially busy this season. several activist groups are challenging state efforts to re be in abortion laws in one case were watching closely is in alabama where the aclu and planned parenthood filed a lawsuit today to stop what it sees as an outright abortion ban . they are criminalizing our doctors and our caregivers brickey get the rush to put new antiabortion laws in place facing backlash outside the supreme court where some of the laws could end up. the aclu says it s ready for a fight which is why the group filed a lawsuit friday challenging alabama s efforts t ban abortion. this law was designed as an unconstitutional upper the sponsors admitted that its