several have outlawed abortion immediately under the so-called tigger laws that will ban or restrict most abortions in roughly half the country. the biden administration weighing options to try and protect abortion rights. former acting attorney general math i hue whitaker joins us in just a moment, but first alexis mcadams is lye in new york city live in new york city with the protests, but let s start with david spunt live at the supreme court. we can hear those crowds still gathering on both sides, chanting, jeering or cheering. david, what s the latest from there? reporter: a lot of energy outside the united states supreme court, that is for sure. things were quiet early this morning, but things began to pick up with several how coming outside the high court to lend their voices just a few hours ago. we re going to take just a little bit of a pan of the crowd right now. you can see there s quite a crowd out here. both sides of this abortion issue out here, though wher
this is a culmination of an anonymously long and contentious debate gives it a sense about the importance of this decision as you look back over 50 years. it is profoundly important. justice mentioned in his opinion, that decision roe v wade is primarily response over the culture war that ensued. it did a normative damage to the cultural view get these scenes. was justice byron white said from the dissent from that decision it was a raw exercise of judicial power. that is quite the beginning of judicial activism. the most extreme expression of judicial activism. yet we find rights and the law that don t exist, are not really supportable by legislation. that to set up a long friending 50 year battle in the united states. what happened to happen there s no that is going to change. what has changed here i think is that with this opinion the majority have established legitimacy of supreme court and the fact it does have to adhere to the text of the constitution. cannot make up
it s the one the court created in 1973 when it robbed the states of their right to determine this issue for themselves. in the words of the late, great antonin scalia. regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, the constitution does not say anything about it. it leaves it up to democratic choice. some states prohibit it, some states didn t. what roe vs. wade said was that no state can prohibit it. that is simply not in the constitution, it was one of those many things, most things in the world left to democratic choice. laura: i wish he was there today. the late judge bork was even more blunt, calling roe an active judicial imperialism, and venting out of whole cloth constitutional rights that the framers never intended.
The House votes to increase the number of visas for Afghans who have helped U.S. troops.
Representative Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger, spearheaded legislation that would expand the number of visas available to Afghans who helped the U.S. military during the 20-year war.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to expand a visa program for Afghans who are facing retribution for helping American troops and diplomats during the 20-year war in Afghanistan, moving to allow more of them to immigrate to the United States quickly as the Biden administration races to evacuate them.