await today s opinion. shannon bream is standing by outside the court. hi, shannon. this is it, dana and bill. we re down to the wire. we know the student loan cases are coming today and know the case on the colorado web designer the free speech issue is coming today as well. the question continues to be does it punted get to an issue of standing. they talked about whether these parties, the group of states, red states that brought the case and borrowers who brought a separate case that they joined together at the court, do they either one of them have the right legal posture to be the ones to have the case heard? it was a lot of doubt. not just the left leaning justices. do they get to the merits of the case? i feel like because they ve held it to the last day my gut says they should have gotten to the merits. they ve taken a long time. we would expect they do. we ll know within moments. the first case it looks like that we have is the colorado web designer. the web design
Of the groups that are being arrested, 1-third of them are youth that are out on the streets protesting. bill. bill: president macron might want to find time to get things under control and save the concerts for later. alex hogan live in london. thank you. dana: fox news alert. moments away from learning the supreme court s decision. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. bill hemmer off today. i m glad you re here with me for another hour of breaking news. bill: major news with the supreme court. millions of americans are waiting to find out what the court has to say on this about president biden s plan to wipe away $4 hundred billion in student loan debt. two related cases are challenging the president s authority to forgive the loans and there are several possible outcomes besides just an up or down ruling. dana: a lot of questions out there. we re answering them now as we
Off? and the twisted irony of this really cheap promise was that the student loan program is not being addressed at all. we re barreling towards $2 trillion of student loan debt that is breaking so many americans who owe years after they took the loan out than when they first got the money. it is crippling people. we ve got to get real about this program. how are we going to help americans go to college but not saddle them with debt? this is big business for banks, big business for our federal government. so as we talk right now, millions of americans are filling out student loans that they may never repay. or that will cripple them once they get out of school. so i think you are also going to see a real backlash here from people who thought well, this was my get out of jail free card and they will say this is unfair. but it s really fair. this is a fair decision by the
Demonstrations at funerals. they won their case 8-1 because speech that is not palatable to everybody is protected. this is a religious view by the web designer. either free speech is free speech or the government has a right to decide which ideas are favored or disfavored. that can t be the case he writes. dana: most cases are decided 9-0, 8-1. a lot of consensus. then you get a case like this where as you are explaining it to me and as i understand it oh, that makes perfect sense. yet you have these strong dissents and public who is out there in affirmative action yesterday for the people who disagreed with the decision, maybe they are heartbroken and worried and upset and you have this decision today. i imagine that there are people saying this is terrible. this means that if i m gay it means if somebody doesn t like
Down and do their summers. they respect each other as colleagues. we see that out front and behind the scenes as well. they need a break in the summer. big decisions come, everybody needs a break. bill: you mentioned your coverage of the case with the westboro baptist church. they stand outside soldiers funerals and say thank god for dead soldiers. they have the protections of the first amendment. it was an 8-1 decision. just as dana was saying we have a 6-3 decision on not that similar of a case but another free speech case. what are the parallels with cases? two of them that have established the first amendment rights. yeah, this court is very protective of the first amendment. we ve seen that in a lot of things. the westboro case is a perfect illustration of that. as gorsuch says we don t need the first amendment for the speech we like and agree on. it s the really difficult, ugly difficult places where there are serious disagreements or offensive viewpoints to one side