reporter: there s certainly more people out here today than we ve seen in days past, especially because today we know exactly what we will get decisions on because it s the last day. you mentioned those two big cases, of course at the end of pride month. that case that has to do with whether or not a web designer can refuse to design a wedding website for a gay couple. we could see some reaction to that. the biggest one we re watching for is on student loans, whether or not biden s student loan forgiveness program will stand. the biden administration was using a congressional act started after 9/11 in 2003. it was continued through the pandemic, even invoke bid betsy devoss under the trump administration. can student loans be forgiven in their entirety forever? this would affect about 43,000 people, sorry, we re starting to get some decisions just in now. so i m going to go listen for what those are, and i said 43,000, that s 43 million people, and i ll be back to you when
Their own moral beliefs or conscience, they don t want to serve certain groups. there really is no limiting principle that i can see. i want to connect this back to last term in dobbs where justice thomas in his concurrence noted that he would be willing to reconsider a wide range of decisions including o berg that will versus hodges. we haven t seen any imminent assaults on obergefell, once you have acknowledged that individuals have a right to discriminate against lgbtq ia couples in the workplace, in public accommodation, you re pretty much on your way to ensuring that we are normalizing discrimination. roe versus wade and overturning it was a 50-year project. this could be the beginning of a 50-year project that culminates in overruling obergefell versus hodges as justice thomas desired. this is a court that is drunk on its own power.
It had only been approved by the fda and 1960. 50 years later, the right to privacy would be invoked again in another landmark supreme court case versus hodges. via the due process clause of the 14th amendment, the same sex couples have a fundamental right to marriage, just like everyone else. years later, there are justices who still don t think that the court made the right decision regarding same sex marriage. in 2020, justices clarence thomas and alito wrote in a gestation that the court was wrong to endorse, a novel constitutional right, meaning same sex marriage over the religious liberty interest explicitly protected in the first amendment. by doing so, undemocratically, it has created a problem that only the court can fix. until then, obergefell will continue to have a ruinous consequences for religious liberty. and quote. legal experts have been
And call that democratic, knowing full well how insulated it can be from democratic accountability. tability this has been a long game of the conservative legal movement for some years. the idea that this game was going to be one on local turf. this was not about federal politics. this was good bc and local governments. school boards, commissions, and they ve done it tremendously well. but here s the thing. brett kavanaugh today talked about some neutral settlement whereby we simply overrule roe, send us back to the states for demographic deliberation. it s got strong emphasize this. send it back to the states. we have never allowed fundamental rights to be subject to the winds of the democratic process. to be subject to the limbs of the majority. if we did, we would not have had a decision in 1954 to desegregate the south, because that is certainly not what the democratic majority in the south wanted at that time. we would not have 2015 s versus hodges. and if you think game irish
0 people actually believe that it s all political, how will we survive? how will the court survive? then, a surprise announcement from jeffrey clark, as the january 6th committee makes the move towards a second contempt for. plus, the damning implications of new reports that the former president had covid way longer than we knew. including at the debate. tonight, is an example everybody s had attests and you ve had social distancing. and why the current president has a compelling case. the economy is actually doing pretty well. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m on chris hayes. today, we find ourselves in a moment in american history where air peers were about to move backwards. poised for regression on basic, fundamental rights. poised to watch a space of freedom and autonomy shut down, that heretofore been protected. no, most of the story of american history is told as one of progress and there s a case for that. the expanding of rights that protect