the supreme court for decades, and now that there are six conservatives on the court, they can do all of these things. they can eliminate women s constitutional right to abortion. they can ban affirmative action in college admissions. they can limit or eliminate the ability of states and localities to implement gun safety laws regarding guns or ammunition. all of this is part of the conservative agenda, but the conservatives have never had enough votes. now they have enough votes and it does appear they re moving quickly across the board. there s also a new and interesting interview today, just today, with justice sonia sotomayor, asked if the justices worry themselves about public perception of the court, public concern that its credibility is falling. i want to play for you what she
so i m not sure what susan collins is talking about except possibly to make this bill that she is proposing less protective of women s constitutional right to abortion. also new today, speaker nancy pelosi had an audience with pope francis. she is currently in europe for a climate conference. she said she thanked the pope for his leadership on, quote, the immense moral clarity and urgency that his holiness continues to bring to the climate crisis. back in washington, the showdown over subpoenas between capitol riot investigators and donald trump s inner circle associates certainly heating up. at least one recipient steve bannon is openly refusing to cooperate with the select committee. the white house is officially waiving executive privilege to protect donald trump, and two sources tell politico that trump s former social media adviser dan scavino has finally now been served with his subpoena. new reporting by nbc news shows
women s constitutional right to an abortion. what is this fight politically now for what does it mean for democrats, for republicans and president biden? listen, this is one of many abortion restricting laws that is passed are passing across the country in mostly republican-led legislatures, but nothing is like this. and i know you covered it last night for lots of reasons, first of all because it bans abortion at six weeks when most women don t know that they re pregnant. there are no outs for people who are pregnant because of rape, because of incest, health of the mother that even many people who are against abortion rights support, but what is going to be the real test here is the fact that they kind of inverted the way laws like this are conducted
action, saying that by signing this bill, the government her colleagues have decided to waste millions in alabama taxpar dollars in order to defend a bill that is simply a political effort to overturn 46 years of precedent that has followed the supreme court s a decision. we will not allow that to happen and we will see her in court. kiersten gillibrand spoke at an abortion rights and roundtable press conference in georgia where it was signed into law last week. we need to call this what it is. a nationwide assault on women s constitutional right. by ideological extremists.
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