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plus, house democratic leader hakeem jeffries is here at the table as republicans struggle to do anything with their majority in the chamber. and arizona secretary of state demanding the justice department take action to protect election workers. grab your coffee, settle in, welcome to the weekend. we begin with the verdict and e. jean carrolls defamation case against donald trump. the 83.3 million dollar award includes 65 million in punitive damages. fridays verdict came after an ev...

official moves one step closer. house republicans holding a mark un of their impeachment articles against secretary mayorkas. theyre trying to hold him accountable over the migrant crisis. that hearing is only 60 minutes away and he is shrugging it off writing to the panels chairman i assure you your false accusations dont rattle me or divert me from the broader public service mission that i have devoted most of my career and i remain devoted. watch that story. first, however, the whit...

politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonights lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roes reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left th...

ruled that donald trumps role injan 6th riot at the us capitol meant he was ineligible to run for office again. the ruling referred to clause 3 of the 14th amendment of the us constitution that prohibits anyone who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding elected office. the supreme court has since taken up that case. and before them in support of colorado is a brief signed by twenty—five historians, all of them experts on the civil war and reconstruction. in their submi...

that mass shooting in philadelphia last night. at least five people are dead, two injured after a gunman wearing body armor opened fire in a southwest philly neighborhood. the two injured victims are 2 and 13 years old according to police. police say they believe they have the suspect in custody, but are trying to establish a motive. whats the latest? >> reporter: details still emerging this morning. initially, police had said four people were shot and killed. all of them dead. we are ...

>> we know thats one of the reasons why hes on the supreme court. >> i think this is tantamount to sticking a dagger in our back. >> we will gun to see a kind of segregated higher education landscape. >> were going to see that become wider and wider. >> whats next, gay marriagesome. >> is this leading to no women in colleges soon? who knows? [laughter] >> no women in colleges. we can dream. i joke. [laughter] and biden wasnt done sobbing, running over to the safe pace of msnbc. >> i fi...

contin♪ ♪ ♪ >> good afternoon, im lindsey reiser, in for yasmin vossoughian. president biden says hes not giving up. >> i believe the courts decision to strike down my student debt relief program was a mistake, was wrong. im not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need, particularly those at the bottom end of the economic scale. so, we need to find a new way. were moving as fast as we can. well use every tool of our disposal to get you the student debt relief yo...

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first, im still filling in for my friend velshi. good man, roughly one year after roe v. wade was overturned, supreme court issued another ruling that said two up and another aspect of american life. on thursday, the supreme court ruled that commissions programs at harvard and university of north carolina violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. it effectively puts an end to affirmative action, a decision that will back decades of progress and president and in fact c...

arguments used by donald trump to fend off the cases popping up cross the country challenging his place in the 2024 ballot. it is an existential threat to the one thing that donald trump sees as the way out of all his legal problems, winning the presidency. a brand-new brief to the supreme court alongside other prominent lawyers like george conway, michael luttig calls for the justices to take the 14th amendment very literally. they say, quote, because section 3 emerged from the hall...