moment that you will be forgiven if you don t remember are missed at the time, a lot happened on this day, but at his speech before the insurrection on january six, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i am not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much, you know why, because the story is, i have not spoken to any of them since virtually they got in, but the story is, that they re puppets. the only way they can go out to, because they hate that, not good on the social circuit, and they only way to get out is to rule against trump. let s rule against trump, and they do that. now, in reality, the current supreme court is one of the most conservative courts in modern history. they are the court that overturned roe and ended affirmative action, all practically speaking, gave it to citizens united. conservatives dominate the bench, 6 to 3. but donald trump is not compl
oral arguments on january 9th. that might make the current march trial date for trump s trial untenable, putting his entire 2024 legal calendar in question. so voters may not have a ruling on whether donald trump plotted to overturn the 2020 election until after they cast their ballots in 2024. we should note, if trump wins a second term in the white house, he could and likely would purger himself and charges might not ever see the charges in trial. extra points for coming in on a holiday weekend, so we appreciate that. i guess, to some extent, that might be a bit of a doomsday scenario to say this case may not happen at all in 2024. but what do you think? what are the consequences of this supreme court decision we heard? is it just going to end up back in their laps in a couple months from now anyway? what do you think? the scenario you painted isn t necessarily a doomsday scenario. trump asked to go on bond for the whole circuit to hear. and then he ll have something like
that s right. it s an important public service announcement. i encourage everybody to watch at 8:00 and 9:00. this is usually ari s hour. who can do it like ari? i wish you a happy holiday. you made it through two hours of a holiday rock block. did it. i m sorry we re not in the same studio. have a great, restful, well-deserved holiday. enjoy your rock block. i will. thank you all at home for joining me this hour. i m not ari. i m alex wagner. this is the beginning of a two-hour rock block thick with news. we begin here. it s a moment that you are forgiven if you don t remember it or if you missed it at the time. a lot happened on this day. at his speech before the insurrection on january 6, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i m not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much. you know why? because the story is, i haven t spoken to any of them, any o
israel to change its tactics inside gaza to protect civilians and get the remaining hostages out. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin touching down in qatar today as officials desperately try to hammer out a deal. plus, dual natural disasters across the globe. in iceland, lava spewing out of a volcano in what experts say is one of the worst possible locations for an eruption. in china, a devastating earthquake killing more than 100 people. and wild weather complicating life in the u.s. after a massive storm knocking out power to more than half a million people in the northeast. a final good-bye for a woman who stands stall in american history. president biden will be among those offering tributes at justice sandra day o connor s funeral in just under an hour. it is a busy tuesday. thank you for joining us. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin in gaza, where israeli forces say they have been engaged in intense fighting this morning. and have killed a promine
trying to get fda approval when a single judge can just flip that around that would impact their desire to try to, you know, research and do get more life saving drugs on the market , and that would affect all of us, erica. so when we look at this 22 of the justice who just this is who dissented here. justice thomas and justice alito . justice alito actually actually said why? what did we hear from justice? alito? jessica yes. so interestingly, the two justices justice thomas justice alito. they re the only ones who dissented. but because of the way the order of structured here we don t know exactly how the other seven voted. only that five definitely did side with the fda. so justice alito wrote that four page dissent. he talked about really two things. he talked about how the supreme court has previously been criticized for these kinds of stays. he also tried to argue that there would be no harm if the restrictions went into effect, um, saying that, at present applicants ar