now. good morning, i am lindsey reiser. we are going to begin with breaking news from the u.s. supreme court. two huge decisions on the final day of its term. moments ago the justices striking down president biden s plan to forgive more than $400 billion in student loan debt. the high court says it needed to be approved by congress and they also ruled that colorado website designer can refuse to create a website for a samecouples saying that the first amendment allows her to refuse to invoice it endorsed messages. colorado seeks to force an individual that. with us now to start off our coverage this hour, nbc news correspondent outside of the court. catherine christian. now an msnbc legal analyst. first, to you here. two huge cases. what did the supreme court have to stay on both of those? well, on that case regarding lgbtq rights. that was the case where now, the opinion, they said that the web design was within her rights and that colorado, which regarded this as an an
washington, and welcome to a special saturday addition of andrea mitchell reports. we begin with breaking news. you are looking live at the supreme court, protesters have been gathering, there for the second day while row opponents are separating. public outrage is growing over the court s decision to repeal roe v. wade, which over a half century, guaranteed the right to an abortion. as of today, abortion is banned in at least nine states, with trigger bans in many more sets to take effect soon. last hour, i spoke with democratic congresswoman jackie speier about the impact this could have on americas women. the constitution, when i went to law school, is a living, breathing document. now, they want to take us back. it is the greatest step back in women s rights in this country in our history, and we can t allow this to be retained. there s many steps we have to take. and also today, president biden signing that landmark gun bill into law. the first major legislation ad
The public should not misinterpret that, it is just interesting to note that he drops that at the end of the opinion, clearly aware that the public safety, at each other s next right now. joining us onset as well. we going to be talking a little bit about the political implications and obviously the president s reaction to some of this. if you could pull on that thread and help me understand, as somebody who has never gone to law school, is about respecting a previous ruling of the court and that is the law of the land or, is it the view that that opinion was wrong in the first place. clearly, you know, brown versus the board of education, think best. obviously, times change and when i say respecting precedents, you look at all of
catherine, here onset with me had mentioned, obviously you went to law school as well and have argued, you have litigated . you know the importance of precedent in cases. we are seeing jobs, we are seeing affirmative action yesterday. we are seeing some of these decisions that are overruling what have been decades of precedents. it is interesting. it depends on your view of whether it was rightly decided in the first place. certainly when it comes to an issue like a row, the conservative majority, roe was wrongly decided from the beginning. the only thing that changed was the composition of the heart. the problem, of course, with something like that, it has the ability, or at least the potential to erode the public s perception of the court. you do see, in this opinion, from the chief justice on student loans, he goes out of his way to say, we might have reasonable disagreements among us about these things.
Sometimes i think we can get a little too heated and dismissive. the court i think is operating in good faith. sometimes, people just disagree about what those precedents say. catherine, i have to be quick with you but you have a 32nd response to that? i respectfully disagree. as he said, reasonable people can disagree. okay, kept it short and sweet. thank you both, we appreciate your time. wisdom, thank you so much for joining us today. obviously, your reaction to the decision yesterday, between yesterday and today, how will this impact the scope of your work? it is a sad day for america. today as we celebrate the one- year anniversary of justice patty swearing into court we are experiencing extreme aggression. let s be clear, the court does not reflect the opinions of america, it