amy coney barrett. chief roberts wrote an opinion ban on abortions 15 weeks after pregnancy, but stopped the precedence of roe vs. wade together. all three liberal justices were in dissent. sandra: nearly half the states are already prepared to ban or severely limit abortions. this ruling comes more than a month, you ll remember, after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by justice samuel alito, indicating the court was prepared to take this very step. that leak leading to weeks of protests outside the homes of some justices and even a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. trace: begin with shannon bream, she is life at the supreme court. good to see you, trace and sandra. walk through this again. what happens here, with the 5-4 opinion, at least on the issue of not only upholding the mississippi law but journey turning roe, send this back to the states. many of them already have trigger laws on one end or the other that are kicking in almost immediately, some
coal mine moment for the democratic party. last night, there was a special congressional race in south texas. it saw a very deep blue sea turn bright red. now, republican mayra flores easily defeated her democratic opponent by eight points in district 34. now, get this, it s the first time in 150 years this district ever elected a republican! in 2012, obama won it by 23 points. 2016, yeah, hillary won it by 22 points. biden only won it by four, but now republican mayra flores, she won it by eight. all right, that would be a 12-point swing in two years, a 30-point swing if you go back to 2016. keep in mind, this is a majority hispanic district. it borders mexico to the south along the rio grande valley. now, mayra actually immigrated to the u.s. from mexico making her the very first mexican-born woman to be elected to congress. she s also married to a u.s. border patrol agent. she made border security a huge focus of her campaign. take a look. too many to many, the borders
protest at the home of a judge while he s considering a case and merrick garland has become perhaps the most political attorney general in the history of this country. he s willing to weaponnize the department of justice and fbi to target parents as domestic terrorists, but he refuses to enforce the law against the people flagrantly violating the law, and jen psaki at the white house encourages people, go and protest at the justices houses. let me ask you, sean, in all of your years of watching and being involved in national politics v you ever seen a white house press secretary from the white house urge americans to commit a federal crime? well, you have today! sean: never! not once! no, sir! i will tell you we re just out of time, senator, but i got to till something, we don t have equal justice under the law anymore. we don t have equal application. we have one set of rules for the democrats and if you re a conservative and you get caught j-walking or spitting
white house. this is a white house that s very focused on tackling covid-19 and what he ran on. you see the dip in the polls. americans are frustrated how this pandemic is playing out and the fact that variants are coming out and we can t get past the covid-19 crisis is a serious concern for the white house and you see a president continuing to be in charge, continuing to be fully briefed and continuing to level with the american people and provide a vision for steering the country out of the crisis. it will be a singular focus for the mid-terms and 2024. harris: covid-19 is so-called about because it happened in 2019. 2021 now. it is so 2019. it s like we didn t learn anything along the way and the american people may be holding this white house responsible for that. the hunter biden headache not letting up with some explosive new reporting from new york