egregiously wrong and deeply damaging. the three liberal justices dissenting, warning the ruling will lead to the curtailment of women s rights and of their status as free and equal citizens. on capitol hill, the reaction was swift. disgraceful. disgraceful judgment. it s absolutely a major issue on the ballot. largest governmental overreach in the history of our lifetime. kevin mccarthy told cnn he supports codifying a 15-week abortion ban at the national level. the supreme court upheld mississippi s 15-week ban in its ruling overturning roe. with the support of chief justice john roberts, who opposed overturning roe entirely. the right to life has been vindicated. the voiceless will finally have a voice. congressional democrats left with little recourse, given they lack 60 votes in the senate to overcome a gop filibuster. the senator from my state, the senator from west virginia, if you say you re for women, then do not use an old law that was not even, again,
to carry a gun. the justices this morning throwing out a new york law that required residents to prove they had a reason to carry a gun outside the home. the ruling was 6-3 with justice clarence thomas writing for the conservative majority. he said the special cause to carry a concealed handgun was a violation of the second amendment right to bear arms. we have more details on this dramatic decision. reporter: the immediate affect is to strike down this gun law in new york. it required people to show proper cause to get a license to carry a concealed handgun in public. it s now struck down similar laws in six other states will also be struck. more consequentially, this decision will also prompt challenges to all kinds of gun laws across the country. and that s because this decision is really changing the framework on how judges will evaluate gun laws moving forward, and this conservative court is saying for the first time that the constitution guarantees the right to carry
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Have to choose between their livelihood and complying with this law. and the majority said it amounts to forced speech, to force people like lori smith, this would-be website designer, to design a website for a same-sex couple. as we laid out, the question is but when does that stop. well, virtually every seller says part of what i sell is expressive, has this sort of expressive content, and then say i can also be exempted from anti-discrimination laws. now of course the other major ruling yesterday was the court striking down president biden s student debt forgiveness plan. in light of the fact that most student loan forgiveness has been granted through laws passed by congress, was this decision a surprise? i don t think it was a surprise. the real question is whether or not the court was going to say anybody has standing, basically if anybody is injured enough to walk into federal court and bring this case. but once you decide, once this
not a joke. be sure to watch state of the union on sunday. two republican candidates for president, former new jersey governor chris christie, former texas congressman will hurd, police democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, this sunday at 9:00 a.m. right here on cnn. thank you so much for joining inside politics. cnn news central starts right now. two major decisions from the supreme court. first the court striking down the biden student loan forgiveness program affecting millions of americans. a decision that could resonate on the 2024 campaign trail. and limiting rights. the court rules in favor of a