wishing him the best. thank you for watching. cnn this morning starts right now. i want everyone who is dealing with the problems we have been facing, whether you haven t been able to get to where you need to go or you re one of our heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline we re doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. and please also hear that i m truly sorry. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, december the 28th and that was an apology from the ceo of southwest airlines after the chaos that continues for the airline and so many passengers. it is little solace for thousands of stranded passengers across the country and thousands more who are about to find out their flight today has been canceled. also, title 42 still being enforced at the southern border after a new supreme court decision we got overnight. it has left thousands of migrants and advocates in a state of flux and confusion. we are getting a new batc
demonstrations in the coming days. people here are encouraged to come back tomorrow. all right. donee in d.c. let s head to los angeles where camilla is. we saw abortion rights supporters marching on the freeway there. what s the latest now, camilla? reporter: hey, don, we were on the freeway for about 15 or 20 minutes, but lapd officers sort of blocked the protesters from continuing to walk on the freeway and kind of push them back inside of downtown l.a. and that s where we are right now. the crowd is still fairly large as you can see. you can hear the cars honking. many people shouting. they are screaming and saying, you know, our body, our choice. they took a water break and just like in washington d.c. organizers here in l.a. also getting ready to do this all over again tomorrow. they are already organizing and saying they re going to gather in the afternoon and a lot of them just saying they want to call the attention to what is happening here in los angeles, in cal
Conservative justice, knneil gorsuch who said, the current crisis is not a covid crisis and courts should not be in the business of perpetuating edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials failed another emergency. so this order will keep title 42 in place for months to come. we were so struck by your reporting on the ground, rosa, seeing all the migrants bundled up in 36 degree weather. the real impact is what this means for them. what does this court doing this mean for them? reporter: because there s various groups of may granteds here, migrants who turned themselves into authority and have a packet of documentation
Trump was on timing, he got three appointees in just a single term the of course, the first one knneil gorsuch was because president obama blocked merrick garland to the scalia seat but to get three appoints in a single team is a big deal when you think how his predecessors barack obama and bill clinton, democrats served two terms each and only got two appointees. jimmy carter served for four years and got not a single one. donald trump had a disproportionate affect on this court and the republicans he chose are not like republicans from even just ten years ago, ten, 15 years ago compare these three appointees, brett kavanaugh, amy coney barrett and neil gorsuch to sandra day o connor, on anthony kennedy an warner burger who president nixon appointed as chief justice
Privacy or legal precedent because for them this is a moral issue. despite losing the popular vote seven out of the past eight elections, six points on the bench appointed by the gop. the problem is some of those republican-appointed justices currently supporting the decision to overturn roe v. wade reassured their senators they wouldn t dream of doing this, remember brett kavanaugh? what would you say your position today is on a woman s right to choose? i d say, judge as a judge. as a judge, it is an important precedent of the supreme court, by it, i mean roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey, been reaffirmed many times. casey is precedent on precedent. precedent on precedent. and here s knneil gorsuch. the supreme court of the united states has held in roe v. wade that a fetus is not a