decision is final until it is officially issued, but the 98 pages written by justice leto lay out how the conservative majority plans to wipe away nearly 50 years of legal precedent. it s crystal clear. the court plans toe limb nate the constitutional protection for abortion and absent federal legislation, leave this issue to each of the 50 states. this from justice alito. we hold roe and casey must be overruled. he says the constitution makes no reference to abortion and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. roe was egregiously wrong from the start. alito s draft joined by four other conservatives. clarence thomas and the four trump appointees. the news prompting an thunderstorms and a visceral reaction outside the court. both last night and then continuing today. the law s defenders flocking to the court steps to protest. the draft decision would reset american life by changing abortion access for millions of women. by delivering on decades
obtained by politico indicates the supreme court has voted to overturn the constitutional guarantee to abortion access, which has been in place for half a century. the final decision would lead to abortion bans in nearly half of u.s. states and present a seismic shift for americans. crowds are gathering outside the supreme court since the news broke last night, so let s begin our coverage with cnn s jeremy diamond who is live at the white house today. jeremy, the president making crystal clear where he stands on this issue this morning. reporter: no doubt about it, bianna, and listen, we know that president biden and the white house were learned about this news like everybody else, through this politico report, and the president making clear that there is a caveat at the top of this, which is that the white house does not know whether this is an authentic document and but nonetheless, the president making clear that he believes that this is a fundamental right that
decisions relating to your private life, who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child or not, whether or not you can have an abortion, a range of other decisions, how you raise your child, what does this do? does this mean that in florida, they can decide they re going to pass a law saying that same-sex marriage is not permissible, against the law in florida? there s a it s a fundamental shift in american jurisprudence. politico obtained and published a leaked draft opinion written by conservative justice samuel alito. now, the opinion would eliminate the constitutionally protected right to abortion. alito writes this in part. the constitution makes no reference to abortion and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. roe was egregiously wrong from the start. the supreme court chief justice john roberts confirmed the leaked draft is authentic but he cautioned that it is not final. roberts slammed the leak as a betrayal and a s
i can t see my brother anymore. i fell, and i don t even know how i woke up and started pulling myself out. i m all scratched and battered. i yelled vita, vita, but he was gone. her home was flattened during the battle for rubisnic which is now in russian hands. putin s forces have been driving southeast along the donetsk river and south from izyum. russia s stated aim is to capture all of the donbas. that includes the luhansk and donetsk provinces. they say they can hold the russians back for now. but he says we need powerful long range artillery, and that unfortunately is not here yet, and it could completely change the whole war. without the heavy weapons already promised by the u.s. and other western allies, he says, the russians will destroy everything with artillery and mortars. they destroy with aircraft, they use helicopters. they are just wiping everything off the face of the earth so there s nothing left to hang on to. for ukraine, this is an existential battle. r
getting ready. there was a ton of reaction last night. dana: the breach at the supreme court sending shock waves through washington the draft opinion reported by politico shows the majority of the justices voting in favor of mississippi on its 15-week abortion ban and overturning roe in the process. bill: the unconfirmed leak is seen as an attempt to see one of the judges to change the vote. keep in mind draft opinions circulate and change. nothing is final until it is signed. apparently this was written the first part of february. according to many, however, the damage to the highest court in america, the damage to that court has been done. this is an utter disgrace in terms of how it was released. this thing has been brought about as a result of an unscrupulous person trying to subvert 235 years of tradition. a matter of time. all these institutions will collapse. a grave assault on the supreme court. this is just so outrageous that this draft opinion was leaked