await today s opinion. shannon bream is standing by outside the court. hi, shannon. this is it, dana and bill. we re down to the wire. we know the student loan cases are coming today and know the case on the colorado web designer the free speech issue is coming today as well. the question continues to be does it punted get to an issue of standing. they talked about whether these parties, the group of states, red states that brought the case and borrowers who brought a separate case that they joined together at the court, do they either one of them have the right legal posture to be the ones to have the case heard? it was a lot of doubt. not just the left leaning justices. do they get to the merits of the case? i feel like because they ve held it to the last day my gut says they should have gotten to the merits. they ve taken a long time. we would expect they do. we ll know within moments. the first case it looks like that we have is the colorado web designer. the web design
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that eliminating ideas is the very purpose. the name of this commissiony and the underlying law. the court was very blunt and said yeah, you have the wrong ideas. so they ve got to go. well, gorsuch today said the first amendment is a different purpose. it is to make sure that you don t have to give up those views in order to function in society, including as a business person. this was an important decision for gorsuch the same way yesterday was an important decision for roberts. roberts has been working for years toward that decision on affirmative action in education. this was really gorsuch s case from the beginning. he was born in colorado, he served on the 10th circuit, he is perhaps the most libertarian of the court. highly principled. this was really in his wheel house. it will be one of his most lasting opinions when we look back at his still-unfolding legacy.
the december vote. but when it comes to the issue of actually subpoenaing their own colleagues, this is something where a doj investigation could help alevy ate some of the pressure that members have been weighing behind closed doors. we ve been told that lawmakers have been acutely of aware of not trying to further inflame the situation and i think that a red line that has sort of been drawn and as we ve seen so far at least because the committee has voluntarily requested that people like house minority leader kevin mccarthy and jim jordan and scott perry appear before the commissiony and they have not yet cooperated and we haven t seen subpoenas. the committee is treading lightly with these kinds of cases. but i do think at the end of the day, if these contempt referrals are continued to be left hanging and ultimately render congress s subpoena power toothless, then we could see the committee try
in march this committee, subcommittee crime and terrorism held its first hearing. i think senator graham and senator whitehouse for that. i raise the issue of protecting our election infrastructure with former bush department of justice official ken weinstein, and he agreed this is a very important issue. as the ranking member of the rules committee, i m particularly concerneded about ensuring our elections are safe from foreign interference. i recently led a group of 26 senators and calling for a full account of the election assistance commissiony efforts to address russian and cybersecurity threats in the 2016 election. i m also working on legislation in this area. can you discuss how the fbi has coordinated with the election assistance commission, department of homeland security and state and local election officials to help protect the integrity of our election process. thank you, senator. in short, what we ve done with dhs is share the tools,