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A lot to come in this term before justice breyer steps down, ana. the real work begins for the white house and democrats here. >> jessica schneider, thank you for your reporting. well come back to you as you gather more details. chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, gloria borger, we just heard jessica lay out whats happening at the supreme court, some of the reasons perhaps behind this decision, but this is big news for the biden administration and for democrats. what do you see as the impact? >>...

She had already been serving as a district -- on the district court. and what we know about next term is that one of the biggest cases theyre going to hear is an affirmative action case. so its true that here well see a liberal replacing a liberal, but the new nominee is likely to be much younger. maybe more liberal than breyer. and will change the inner dynamics of the court. breyer will remain for the rest of this term which is right now considering some of the biggest issues of the day consid...

Step down. in fact, the progressive group demand justice promoted a mobile billboard with the words breyer retire trying to get their message out there. there has been persistent pressure to leave well before the midterms when at this point democrats would be in firm control of this nomination and hearing process for the next justice. justice breyer still has a lot of work left to do in it terms. there are huge issues outstanding including the fate of abortion rights, gun rights, those cases hav...

In american history. >> you know the inner workings and dynamic probably better than a lot of us, most of us, in fact. im curious how you see this shaking things up. was breyer extremely influential on the current court or, you know, will it be more easy to replace him in terms of fitting in with the crew? >> well, you are exactly right. once one justice leaves, the whole dynamic of the court does change. and as wolf has reported he said he was going to step down upon the confirmation of his suc...

Down, and they were mad that he didnt. there may have been some calculation. he might have thought, look, ive been on this corporaurt th longest, i have relationships, i can play a role this term in these cases, the second amendment case, the abortion case, but so far it doesnt seem like he did a lot in persuading his colleagues in the one case they allowed the text law that bars abortion before most women even know theyre pregnant to go into effect. breyer was in dissent and the conservatives a...

Abortion returns part of a blockbuster term that could result in a gusting of roe v. wade. and the case is in kentucky. and an appeals court has already ruled had it is unconstitutional. both of these cases could provide tea leaves on how the court will ultimately rule on what has been the law of the land since 1973. joining us as we start the hour, pete williams and nyu law professor melissa murray. and also wendy murphy is back with us. she is a former state prosecutor and new england law bost...

Lets talk about public pp opin when it comes to the number one issue theyll be dealing with on the court this term, which is abortion. cnn did a poll of polls. fewer than one-third of americans want to see roe v. wade overturned. that is according to, again, the poll of polls. jackie, ariane said something important, that this is clarence thomas term. for 30 years, the seeds that conservatives planted are now bearing fruit. that is true on all of these issues. the most important is abortion, whi...

But abortion and abortion rights certainly is. i think youre going to see more and more, particularly as we watch this play out, democrats start talking about that in their home states and in these marginal races. >> eva, one of the reasons politicians do actually talk about things is old-fashioned grassroots energy. we saw that over the weekend. we saw women marches all over the country. women on this specific issue. they chose this weekend because of the term at the supreme court starting toda...

He called in. justice barrett was there for the first time in her own seat. justice sotomayor was there, the only one wearing a mask. she has a pre-existing condition so she is very careful with her diabetes. the backdrop of this term is unbelievable. we have never seen the public confidence at an all time low, and the country is still reeling in so many ways from that texas abortion order that basically allotted that texas law to go into effect, making roe v. wade a dead letter in the second bi...

Werent political enemies. this is judicial philosophy. i understand theyre making that argument, out of concern for the legacy for themselves and the court. but that is a hard argument to make when, particularly for the most marginalized groups in this country, there is a real impact on the decisions that they make. they dont just view it as a judicial philosophy but as a matter of life and death for many of these issues that they will be ruling on this term. >> yeah. and i think, too, what this...