wedding websites for same sex couples. an application of the first amendment to civil rights law that could affect public accommodations perhaps even gay marriage access for many minority groups. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington where the supreme court just ended its urm with a conservative super majority flexing its muscle once again. this morning striking down the student loan forgiveness program with the chief justice writing in part the secretary of education asserts the heroes act. in a second major ruling today but perhaps even more far ranging consequences down the road the six conservatives, gorsuch writing the opinion saying the first amendment rights of a colorado website designer give her the freedom to refuse from accepting same sex couples from her business. in this case justice sotomayor read aloud a strongly worded dissent from the bench to emphasize her strong disagreement. writing in part, lgbt people have existed for all of human history. and as s
now, and president biden is expected to speak momentarily. andy, matt, while we wait and even just picked up on this. this quinnipiac poll was just 67% of america basically think america is in danger of collapse and split evenly each party says the same thing. i m asking you as someone who has worked in law enforcement from inside the institution itself, not as a political question here but as someone who s worked inside these institutions, what do you make of that? i think it s reflective of the great concern that people inside government, inside institutions, like the department of justice, like the fbi, like the cia, and other places across the intelligence community are similarly concerned about what they see. none in the same political way by that is reflected in this poll but rather in the attack that is taken place, folks on the institution of government, over the last five or six years. that is what scares them, that s what erodes the confidence and trust in the
now, they are saying that s a historical context, in part, inspired biden to deliver this address, at that venue, on this evening, just ten weeks from the midterm elections, as mike just noted. last month, the president of the group of historians, presidents do this from time to time, understandable, they want a little perspective, and that group of historians who, met with the president in the white house warned him, america s democracy is teetering. just think, for the first time in the history of this nation, a president disrupted the peaceful transfer of power. nothing like it had happened since the cannons fired at fort sumter. that same individual, who interrupted that peaceful transfer of power, led to the bloodshed there. eacefu transfer of powebut one of the , leading extreme movement, that threatens violence, and promises to overthrow the next election if that autocrat, aspiring autocrat, does not pass. tonight, the united states president, joseph biden, will out hi
evening, just ten weeks from the midterm elections, as mike just noted. last month, the president of the group of historians, presidents do this from time to time, understandable, they want a little perspective, and that group of historians who, met with the president in the white house warned him, america s democracy is teetering. just think, for the first time in the history of this nation, a president disrupted the peaceful transfer of power. nothing like it had happened since the cannons fired at fort sumter. that same individual, who interrupted that peaceful transfer of power, led to the bloodshed there. but one of the autocrat, leading extreme movement, that threatens violence, and promises to overthrow the next election if that autocrat, aspiring autocrat, does not pass. tonight, the united states president, joseph biden, will out his vision for how to safeguard, and defend, american self governance against its enemies the fish. will be the continued battle for the so
anything more to the point tonight. 67%, two in three, say american democracy is in danger of collapse. the percentage of democrats and republicans who believe it, identical. however, don t go looking for a bipartisan silver lining. the poll doesn t ask people to give a reason why they believe this. so it s possible, even likely given such other recent polling that a deep partisan divide exists over what people think is wrong. to use a political science term, ain t good. it does not bode well. but it certainly sets the stage for what the president will say tonight. and the backdrop, significant new developments in the court battle over documents seized from the former president s mansion and what he said today about pardoning january 6th defendants. let s go first to cnn s jeff zeleny who is at independence hall in philadelphia. jeff, what more are you learning about the speech tonight, which begins in just a few minutes? reporter: john, we are berning that president biden