a nine to nothing ruling. but the justices did agree. in fact that it is not up to the states to enforce an execute the 14th amendment. you saw at justices alito and thomas in agreement with justices sotomayor and kagan on that point. it s simply he could not be as a matter of law, as a matter of constitutional interpretation, that every state gets to do what it wants, because otherwise that would leave us with a quote, patchwork of different states doing different things according to the decision. so it s a rare 90 opinion and i think they hit the nail on the head here now we saw two concurring opinions, one by justice amy coney barrett, and one by the three liberal leaning justices. they really had a big disagreement there yeah, i think the actual amount of disagreement here isn t that much when you drill down on it, it s important to understand all nine justices agreed. it s not up to the states. the five justices in the main opinion said it has to be done by congress on
granger for the ones who get it done? the situation room with wolf blitzer didn t night at six, cnn cnn, breaking news. good morning and thanks for joining us on this friday. i m erica hill with omar jimenez in new york, poppy and phil are off this morning we are following the breaking news out of russia. hoon critic alexei navalny has died in prison. that is according to the country s prison service. navalny was 47 years old as for the cause of his death, that is a mystery at this hour. navalny was serving a 19 year prison sentence. at a penal colony near the arctic circle on charges of extremism have one of course, led nationwide anti-kremlin protests for more than a decade. he had run for office to challenge the russian establishment expose a lot of what was happening there survived several poisonings he spoke to our christiane amanpour in 2020 why do you want to go back? and i guess do you think you ll be safe when you go back? well, i don t think that i can h