roe v. wade according to our res shannon bream is that roe v. wade has been overturned and the question of abortion has been returned to the states. tucker: pandemonium ensued immediately in the headline of the babylon become democrats paused january 6th hearing to pause for insurrection and that is basically true but from a legal perspective, which is what matters, there is nothing surprising about today s decision. it s only a matter of time before roe v. wade was overturned. that s been obvious for decades. even democrats once acknowledged. roe was one of those decisions you never heard anyone defend on its own terms. lots of people want legal abortion but no one has ever explained how exactly the constitution guarantees that. roe was a political document, not a legal opinion and that its existence undermined the legitimacy of the supreme court. it was poison. the purpose of the supreme court a simple, it is to determine whether the laws the politicians pass are consiste
the lead plaintiff in a landmark same-sex marriage case joins me tonight. he with begin tonight with a theme that, by now, may be familiar to viewers of this show. repeal the 20th century. the notion that, for many on the far right, the good ole days start with 17 and 18, as in hundreds. the era where men were men and is womener property. and the 20th century, the american century, was literally the ruin of this country as a christian nation the onset of workers rights and social safety net and income taxes and voting rights for women and black people and liberalized immigration and acceptance of lgbtq people and dangerous cultural things, like jazz, hip-hop, you know, rock and roll. and legalized contraception and apportion. believe it or not, there are people and el with-funded groups in this country who have dedicated their lives to repealing it all. but right now, i hate to say it, they are kind of winning. conservative organizations like the heritage foundation had in
to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. yeah. maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. i agree. this is unsustainable. yeah. this republican party is unsustainable. we re going to explain that more because there s different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing pressure on western europe to do more. with us, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius joining us this morning. national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. and white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire is with us. and the host of msnbc s politics nation, president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton is with us on this monday morning. we re going to begin, joe, with that poll that finds a
I mean, he is still alive. and it didn t intimidate the court but this night of rage at which the justice department has known about for weeks now is a possibility, if it gets out of hand this will because of joe biden and merrick garland. they didn t stop the violence when they could have. they didn t tell biden support us to stand down when they should have. so it s on them. tucker: kind of weird this is exactly the moment when biden and merrick garland are telling the rest of us, i m sorry, you are going to have to give your guns up. do you think this is a good time to turn in your guns? you know, it is never a good time to surrender to the government when they try to take away your fundamental liberties, and that is of course with this administration wants. they make a lot of noise about rights that aren t in the constitution, like abortion, but for things that are plainly there like the second amendment, right there in the text, that they say, let s just get rid of it. it s a
care about it. if bridges felt falling down right. and people kept getting killed all over america, there would be such an outcry. people go, well, that s there s no the bridges aren t in the constitution. well, guess what? what most republicans are about guns, it s not in the constitution either. the second amendment is very clear. heller is very clear. look across the nation, connecticut has far more aggressive safety laws than what congress is trying to pass. the supreme court has refused to overturn any of those laws. yeah. meanwhile, here s the moment senator john cornyn of texas, the top republican involved in the bipartisan gun legislation negotiations, he was booed on friday as he spoke at the texas republican convention. let s take our country back starting with congress in