touch every single person in this country. how major decisions on affirmative action, lgbtq rights and much more are reshaping america. plus, supreme showdown. this is not a normal court. biden lashed out at the supermajority. the left said it is time to do something about it. we re witnessing the most radical politicized supreme court in recent history. and the fight to beat donald trump. no more excuses. 2024 is the time to put up or shut up. half way through the year, the ex-president is still clobbering the gop field. we have a massive lead. leading by so much that people don t even want to put out the numbers. they don t even believe them. is his nomination inevitable? hello and welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. one year after ending a federal ban on abortion, the supreme court s conservative supermajority has now flexed its muscle once again over key aspects of american life. in a block bluster ruling, a finale to term, the six
today. it is continuing and it comes down to two ideas of how to get to a point where students of all color will be treated equally. and the question is how much do you take into account of race to get to that point. and the philosophy behind some of the justices who were part of the path ort, not louis powell who wrote it but harry blackman who said you have to take race into account to get beyond race and that is the philosophy of justice jackson as you were saying. whereas clarence thomas has felt that any kind of consideration of race is stag mattizing and it also violated the constitution in his mind an the mantra that john roberts has was embraced by the majority at this time. the way to stop discrimination on the base of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. but i think justice jackson and the other two libberals who joined with her, made a good case that america is not to the
of everybody else. when i spoke with you last you re laying out a repeal obamacare plan. republicans in congress they failed to get the job done. a lot of people, if you look at the polls, 72%, abc/ washington post poll, they think washington is full of a bunch of l liars. do you believe that, are you going to explain that to people, are you going to encourage republicans in washington to do things? and what is the plan to repeal and replace? is it savings accounts, health care savings accounts? we were told last year that if they elected a republican senate to go with the house, they d have a vote to repeal obamacare. it s after lab dor day. they don t have that. that s why americans are put off, they re frustrated with the republican leadership even in congress. i ll take on anything. i won t back down from unions, from libberals and democrats in
and that provides the contrast of everybody else. when i spoke with you last you re laying out a repeal obamacare plan. republicans in congress they failed to get the job done. a lot of people, if you look at the polls, 72%, abc/ washington post poll, they think washington is full of a bunch of l liars. do you believe that, are you going to explain that to people, are you going to encourage republicans in washington to do things? and what is the plan to repeal and replace? is it savings accounts, health care savings accounts? we were told last year that if they elected a republican senate to go with the house, they d have a vote to repeal obamacare. it s after lab dor day. they don t have that. that s why americans are put off, they re frustrated with the republican leadership even in congress. i ll take on anything. i won t back down from unions, from libberals and democrats in
them on the defensive. this president has set the table with the jobs package. he has set the table with tax incentives for small businesses. he has gotten the health care bill passed that s going to help small businesses and families. all the republicans want to do is repeal it. in the meantime, the economy is turning around. who is right and who is wrong? you can t get all this accomplished by remaining deeply to either end of the spectrum. clearly this president is working to appease moderates. sure. he s trying to govern here. does that then pose a problem for the liberals in the ability to maybe bring a liberal challenger to obama in 2012? anybody on the horizon to do that? almost like we as libberals are afraid to say it. i m not. we have nowhere else to go. president obama is our guy. there s nobody that s going to put a challenge to him that s going to unseat him on the left. it isn t going to happen. the fact is that he may have been a stronger campaigner on a liberal