for the wall. he had the government shutdown, 35 days, and directing these funds he didn t get from congress. there were certain groups that challenged it in the courts. that s what led to this big supreme court ruling. a lower court agreed with the groups, saying the president didn t have a right to divert funds. congress has the power of the purse. but the supreme court disagreed. those that brought the suit didn t have standing and the government made a good case for that. this gives him a talking point on the campaign trail. pamela, thank you. as the president chalks up wins on immigration, the calls for impeachment are getting louder. the house judiciary committee has filed a suit to get secret grand jury information from the russia investigation. manu raju has this report from capitol hill. a major step forward for house
one of the two escaped killers is dead the other still on the run that the hour. richard matt shot and killed last night in malone in upstate new york about 30 miles from the prison where they broke out of three weeks ago. a border patrol agent shooting matt when he was continue fronted behind a cabin and refewed to cooperate. the other escapee, david sweat, still on the run. police say they believe they re closing in on him. we have no actual sighting of sweat by law enforcement but we have no indication that sweat wasn t accompanying matt at the time he was shot and killed so we ll main tin the perimeter that we have continue to do a good ground search. sweat now being chased by some 1,100 law enforcement officers who are focusing on a 22-square-mile area. i m uma pemmaraju. now back to more of bulls & bears. for all our headlines, foxnews.com. so after that big supreme court ruling the president says the health care law is here to
correction officer for 28 years. he was, you know part of what he called the law enforcement team. never did he ever expect something like this to happen and he had no intention for this to happen. you know, i sort of felt that he really, sort of i felt that he felt betrayed betrayed by the prisoners, by matt and sweat, who he befriended at the jail who were providing him with information. and really people he felt, you know were helping him and he was in some ways helping them and there was nothing wrong with that in his mind. palmer posted bail of $25,000 an released from jail on thursday. he s expected back in court on monday. now to a big supreme court ruling. it was a huge victory for the u.s. president barack obama and his signature health care law nicknamed obamacare by many. the supreme court rejected yet another challenge to this law. the justices ruled 6-3 in
kind of thing that could fire up the left a little bit. absolutely. when you think you can coming off a great graet victory and there is joy and dancing in the streets, then it s time for a victory lap. not time to get fired up for the election. i see the ruling on the political front being good for the democrats. i agree with michelle that it is narrowly tailored because it says this only applies to contraception. it is only saying this was not the least restrictive way to meet the administration s goals of giving contraception for free to women. the question i have is look at a state like kentucky. republican state. if the democrats are are going to save the senate this would help them.
we don t know how it will be interpreted. i know there are specific potential cases cited in the ruling. blood transfusion or something. we don t really know who are we to say when somebody says this is my religious view and we hold a company, we won t know until challenges are brought. we have a good example. eight years ago the supreme court used the law to carve out an exception for a religious corporation, a church, from the nation s drug laws. then the bush administration said, oh, no, you can t do this. everybody will get an exception. since that time we have had only two more exceptions made from our nation s drug laws under this statute. that s a good indicator that these decisions from the supreme court that are careful and narrow do not lead to a slippery slope. the justices in the majority insist it is limited in scope. justice aleto wrote the decision concerns only the contraceptive mandate and should not be understood to hold that all insurance coverage mandates incl