our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, she s here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the court s term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the president s student loan debt forgiveness program while also issuing a ruling in favor of a website designer that leaves the door open for businesses across the country to discriminate. the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer from colorado who refused to create wedding websites from same-sex couples citing religious grounds. she objected to a colorado law that prohibits discrimination saying it v
The Delhi High Court single bench of Justice Chandra Dhari Singh held that implementation of revised pay scales involves executive discretion and courts do not have the authority to intervene.
there. but i think in prior times the supreme court would have respected executive discretion when it was ambiguous. and i think that what you see here is an increased willingness of the supreme court to say no we re going to go with our judgment, not the judgment of the executive, we re going to go with our jum not the judgment of the legislature. we re going to go with our judgment not the judgment of colorado state. we re going to go with our judgment, not the judgment of harvard university. and i think when a court begins to take that kind of power on that often, it s troubling. david, thanks so much for joining us. we ll continue of course this conversation down the road. let s dig deeper right now with our legal and supreme court exits. and norm eisen, let me start with you. justice sotomayor wrote this in
no money to not have priorities, to not try to delineate who gets picked up, who is subject to removal and who is not. we can t take care of everyone so why can t we have through our own executive discretion and what the court has allowed in past cases to say these are our priorities and texas which has come to the supreme court in so many ways to challenge biden administration priorities has said, no, there are black letter rules in the federal law that you have to abide by and texas got some sympathetic justices but they also got lots of scrutiny about if the court rules for texas, what happens? what will happen on the ground, john? one of the many fascinating decisions now we wait for. joan, thanks for hustling in and thank you for your time today on inside politics. ana cabrera picks up our coverage after a quick break. h7 moisturizers & 3 vitamins
personally is he was raising the issue of corruption with the sitting vice president joe biden. that s a legitimate exercise of executive discretion using taxpayer dollars in a way that doesn t go to corrupt country let me ask you a question. how many times does he say corruption in that call? you re asking where do i see corruption and i don t see that here. how many times did president trump use the word corruption in talking about corruption on the phone call? when you re looking at the issue of joe biden and his son hunter biden get a $50,000 a month salary for a job he clearly has no qualifications for, i think that in itself raises a question of something that needs to be investigated. what s the factual predicate of that investigation? when you look at the vice president he verbally said on tape they re going to with hold financial aid to ukraine so long as the investigations of his son s company does not occur that s not what he said.