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
insisting that he had nothing to do with it, telling the new york times quote, it was briefly placed by mrs. alito in response to a neighbor s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs mrs. alito blaming his wife, while the blame mrs. alito, excuse is not flying with the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, dick durbin saying in a statement, he says, alito should recuse himself from any cases related to the 2020 election. obviously that means the immunity case and the jack smith this case, durbin rights in a statement, flying an upside-down american flag, a symbol of the so-called stop the steal movement. clearly creates the appearance of bias now, just to state the very obvious here for me, for everybody watching a supreme court justice should know better than to have such a blatant political display in his front yard. it s common sense but if there were any question about it, the court does have an internal rule book that he could have cons
Cooperate and help officials. you see ivanka donald trump, donald trump junior and the then president of the united states in this clip. watch. okay. my father is very honest, and he is who he is. he believes everything he s doing is right. i don t treat bad people well unless they don t treat me well, in which case we go to war. can we talk for a second about january 6th? yeah. just for full disclosure, discovery plus part of the parent company of cnn as well. but the power is this ivanka trump saying my father always tells the truth. they re going to use that and then show other statements from them and communications. that is what the committee has done a good job of putting together. people were saying these things publicly. here s what they were doing privately. they have testimony from the children of the former president of the united states, and they have highlighted that and will continue to highlight that, and
Thank you for sharing a newsworthy day. it begins with a supreme court shock wave. the conservative majority throwing out a new york gun law and making clear it holds a very expansive view of second amendment rights. plus an important development in the january 6th investigations. officials who refused to help donald trump cheat and insisted he peacefully yield power to joe biden. and a front row view of the trump family in the momentous days. treat people well unless they don t treat me well, in which case you go to war. can you tell us about january 6th? yeah. and trump s social media stokes a new and urgent threat. january 6th committee lawmakers are upping their security as the number of violent threats against them multiply. we begin the hour with that major legal decision. a supreme court ruling that significantly expands the right
Wanted to push aside so he could install jeffrey clark. of course we re going to be watching his testimony closely today. the other thing that we are going to be looking for is any mention of these republican lawmakers who may have been seeking pardons from donald trump before he left office. obviously we ve seen it come up in previous hearings but also saw members of the committee teasing perhaps we re going to hear more of that today. we are definitely going to be listening for the details. important afternoon ahead. joining me in the studio, our panel. i want to read to you a piece of jeffrey rosen s prepared statement to the committee. we thus held firm to the position that the department would not participate in any campaigns or political party s legal challenges to the certification of the electoral college votes. we also insisted there must be an orderly and peaceful transfer of power under the constitution.