immediately. so it will remain in place for now. the justices, just like the appeals court previously, did not provide any reasoning behind their decision to allow the law to stand. but justice sonia sotomayor was having none of it, writing this. the promise of future adjudication offers cold comfort for texas women who need relief now. nbc s pete williams and boston law professor wendy murphy, welcome to you both. pete, let me start with you, and folks want clarity on this question. will the supreme court decide the case on the merits of the law or over the justice department s right to sue? or is it really both here, pete? it s both. the supreme court s going to hear both those cases on november 1. that s the lightning speed part of this. the decisions will follow, i suspect, at the court s normal pace, complicated by the fact that on december 1, the court hears the third big abortion case of the term, the direct challenge to roe v. wade on mississippi s law that would ba
domestic product of the entire nation of canada, and most other countries too. at the washington post, they suggested joe biden s promise marks, quote, the waning of the neoliberal era. they describe neoliberalism as centrist liberalism friendly to wall street. it s not exactly that. neoliberalism is looting with a smoke screen of race and gender politics so you won t notice that it happens. the post told us, relax. joe biden s going to give us something even better. better than we ve ever had. think fdr in the new deal but with no down side. april 2021, fast forward a year, and it s clear the post got it just about half right. neoliberalism has indeed waned under joe biden. it will not survive the biden administration. that s not because joe biden has rejected neoliberalism, or found an alternative, something to revolutionize america. it s because joe biden embraced neoliberalism. and in so doing reminded the rest of us, tens of millions of americans, that it s horrible. tha
but we want to start with covid. as two of the people closest to the president have now tested positive. white house communications director, kate bedingfield, who received her positive test result, friday morning. and vice president, kamala harris, who s been working remotely since testing positive earlier this week. harris has not been with the president sent over a week ago. and bedingfield says that when she was last with president biden up view days ago, they were socially distance and wearing masks. but these latest infections among high-ranking officials in the administration are a reminder of just how transmissible new covid variants are. ba.2, a subvariant, of the highly contagious omicron variant is still dominant in the u.s.. but an offshoot of that ba.2 dash 12, is rapidly gaining ground. and it s believed to be responsible for a new spike in cases in new york state. in light of the fast spread of these sub variance, doctor anthony fauci caused some confusion this
explaining the situation in blunt terms. we don t believe they have overcome the logistics problems, the command and control issues, unit cohesion and organization. all the problems are stilt bedevilling the russian military. they re resupplying, refitting to reinforce the forces in the donbas and we can see it happening now. an internal conversation is reportedly underway within the biden administration whether or not to send a high level government official to ukraine to show support. politico reports it is likely to be a cabinet member to make the trip rather than the president or vice president but president biden was asked about it this afternoon. will you send senior officials to ukraine? we are making that decision now. joining us is ali arouzi once again live from lviv, ukraine. ali, 24 hours ago exactly former adviser to president zelenskyy said the ship was burning. i saw the images several hours later. he was way ahead of the reporting here stateside. tel
time for the sport now. good morning, yes. it was the best possible start for scotland in their six nations campaign. beating england at murrayfield to retain the calcutta cup for the first time since 1984 it followed an emphatic win for ireland too, an all important bonus point victory over reigning champions wales..and the fans were there to see it all. joe wilson reports. this tournament has been waiting for them. supporters are back. welcome to the tradition. scotland versus england, best of rivals. it s a close relationship. in scotland make the most of this early opportunity, the most of this early opportunity, the man who crossed the line to score used to play for england s under 20s. then white. youthful energy from england came from marcus smith, in the number ten shirt. with that try, england s lead. they kick towards luke karen dickie, the only english defender, what happened. the outcome would have been different if he did not knock that on. then the game is tied