had yesterday, and don t have today. we are going to continue to follow these protests all across the country this evening, so make sure you stay tuned in the coming hours here on cnn. look at this map. 13 states already have trigger laws that would pan ban apportion. at least six wept into effect as soon as the supreme court struck down roe. the rest, in a matter of days or weeks and at least one justice would like this to go forgoter, justice clarence thomas writing quote in future cases, we should consider all this court substantive due process precedence, including griswold, lawrence, and obergefeld. that means a court a court that says there is no right to abortion could also take away more rights, like the right to birth control, the right to same-sex relationships, the right of gay couples to get married. tonight, i am going to talk to the plaintiff in the land mark case that legalized gay marriage that is coming up later in this program. but listen to what the jus
demonstrations in the coming days. people here are encouraged to come back tomorrow. all right. donee in d.c. let s head to los angeles where camilla is. we saw abortion rights supporters marching on the freeway there. what s the latest now, camilla? reporter: hey, don, we were on the freeway for about 15 or 20 minutes, but lapd officers sort of blocked the protesters from continuing to walk on the freeway and kind of push them back inside of downtown l.a. and that s where we are right now. the crowd is still fairly large as you can see. you can hear the cars honking. many people shouting. they are screaming and saying, you know, our body, our choice. they took a water break and just like in washington d.c. organizers here in l.a. also getting ready to do this all over again tomorrow. they are already organizing and saying they re going to gather in the afternoon and a lot of them just saying they want to call the attention to what is happening here in los angeles, in cal
thank you so much for sticking with me. i ll be back here 9:00 monday night. don lemon tonight starts right now. sara snider, thank you so much. this is don lemon tonight as the lady said. you are looking at protests right now across the country. at least 70 planned, from coast to coast. thousands of americans, taking to the streets in the wake of the supreme court overturning roe v. wade after almost half a century. three conservatives appointed to the court by then-president donald trump, who promised to nominate justices to overturn roe, and now, a fundamental right the right to abortion is taken away. and that has been upheld by generations of justices appointed by both republicans and democrats. a right, millions of americans had yesterday, and don t have today. we are going to continue to follow these protests all across the country this evening, so make sure you stay tuned in the coming hours here on cnn. look at this map. 13 states already have trigger laws
this is a culmination of an anonymously long and contentious debate gives it a sense about the importance of this decision as you look back over 50 years. it is profoundly important. justice mentioned in his opinion, that decision roe v wade is primarily response over the culture war that ensued. it did a normative damage to the cultural view get these scenes. was justice byron white said from the dissent from that decision it was a raw exercise of judicial power. that is quite the beginning of judicial activism. the most extreme expression of judicial activism. yet we find rights and the law that don t exist, are not really supportable by legislation. that to set up a long friending 50 year battle in the united states. what happened to happen there s no that is going to change. what has changed here i think is that with this opinion the majority have established legitimacy of supreme court and the fact it does have to adhere to the text of the constitution. cannot make up
tonight, protesters are out in the streets across the country, after the unprecedented supreme court decision, ending roe v. wade. 50 years after it became law. demonstrations have been growing ever since the ruling was announced this morning. five of the courts conservatives voted to overturn roe. samuel alito who is a draft opinion was leaked last month, wrote in his final decision that roe was egregiously wrong from the start. the ruling automatically clears the way for abortion bans in 13 states. at least six states have already put them into effect. and there are concerns about what this may mean for court decisions on contraception, and gay rights. justice clarence thomas says those should be up for review as well. we ve got a lot to cover tonight, but i want to begin with my friend and colleague, morrow barrick, our nbc news reporter. she s on the ground, at the supreme court, all day long. morrow, you have been among the protesters for hours. what are they telling you