discuss piece arrendondo, after we re hearing stunning reports of law enforcement just outside the classroom. and on nbc news, a top kremlin official broke russia s silence on the two u.s. veterans captured in ukraine. we ll get the latest from moscow. primary elections in virginia and washington, d.c. with runoffs in three other states. steve kornacki will break down what you need to know. and we are just three hours away from another key hearing by the house january 6th committee. the panel plans to lay out an elaborate effort by former president donald trump and his allies to pressure state lawmakers and election officials into defying the will of the voters. and overturning the election he lost. today, we ll be hearing from arizona house speaker rusty bowers who resisted the pressure from trump and his allies and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who trump tried to push to find votes just days after the attack on the capitol. moments ago nbc news learned
much. we have news out of the supreme court, nbc s pete williams is here with more. pete. well, jose, yeah, we re waiting for supreme court decisions today. we ve got one more yet to come. but the supreme court has just given a very interesting ruling on a case involving freedom of religion. this was a case from maine. has an unusual program. in order to let children who live in rural areas attend high school. they give money to parents who then can use that for tuition to send their children to either public or private schools. but the state has a law that says that money can t be used to send the children to what are called sectarian schools. the supreme court has previously ruled that when states have sort of a scholarship program like this, they can t discriminate against schools that have religious affiliation, that are just run by a religious group. this ruling takes it a step further and says if the states are going to give money for this kind of support, it also has to
book at people. and they re saying there at the committee and kind of wondering where is the justice in this the justice department has not yet spoken on that. they re waiting for supreme court ruling on executive privilege. the archival materials i want to look at is in litigation. so the news they got today is, okay, maybe merrick garland was a little reluctant but he came down on the side of being tough on these people. so i think it gives them hope that when they say that people should be held in contempt, they might be backed up by the justice department. it is not a slam dunk. nobody knows what merrick garland and the justice department will do about meadows for example. but i think they would say, you know, this is how we see the narrative. this is how we see these people, they are domestic terrorists and they are seditious and we ought to treat them as such.
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