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Officer kovach is appealing the decision to fire him. david, kovach was a 26-year veteran of the force. police say they handed over this incident to the county prosecutor for review. david? >> erielle reshef, thank you. a major decision about your privacy rights. the supreme court ruling police in most cases need a search warrant to track suspects movements by collecting information about where they use their cell phones. it means police must go before a judge and get a search warrant before t...

It meld the civil rights commission showed hostility toward the baker based on his religious beliefs. but the ruling leaves broader questions of civil rights and religious liberty unsettled. justice kennedy who is the author of four landmark cases wrote in today majority ruling. it says the outcome of cases like this and other circumstances must await further elaboration in the courts. all in the context of recognizing that these disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without unduect to since...

It doesnt appear they are ever going to until we get rid of the culture of the 60 vote requirement and go with 51. president trump has been great on that. and by the way the constitution only requires a majority. that was a super imposition by the senate. >> shannon: mitch mcconnell does not want to get rid of it. there are plenty of people speaking out. >> if you look before the november 2016 election, you will see there were democrats like schumer that were handing -- maybe its time to get bac...

Enduring an eight-month slog to rid themselves of isis, iraqi troops have reached the river that marks the end of the territory, to raise the flag as weve been seeing on social media. and although there are some small pockets of isis, that since last night were holding out, the moment that iraq has to reflect on the sieveses its made for -- the sacrifices its made for the world. al abadi making sure people feel the appreciation has government has for the work and blood thats been lost in that go...

The other side of the ruling, justice scalia had one of his trademark awesome dissents today. at one point he called the majority ruling "pure applesauce". that was the whole sentence, "pure applesauce." is this quotability on these things strategic or does he actually think like a cartoon character? >> i think when you are bringing it. a couple of things. hes the most quotable justice. sometimes it borders on a.m. radio quotable but hes a wordsmith and thinks this way and loves this. i think he...

Welcome back. the nations highest court effectively striking down a provision of the presidents health care law. the supreme courts majority ruling in favor of companies who want to deny coverage of certain contraceptives due to religious beliefs, but the dissending justices, they argued that this could have real and very big implications for cases to come. lets discuss and get a legal breakdown from jeffrey toobin, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. jeffrey, a lot of emotions on b...

That is basically a no-protest zone, a bubble like youve got around polling places, like youve got around military funerals. like the justices of the supreme court enjoy every day. that fixed zone was designed to keep those clinic entrances open and people going in and out of the clinics safe, after decades of murder and mayhem outside clinics just like that. today the supreme court overturned that massachusetts law. from inside their own protective buffer zone, the supreme court issued its majo...

Enforce. that year that he made that testimony, 2007, massachusetts changed its law basically to make the whole thing simpler. and in massachusetts now, there is a yellow line painted on the ground outside clinic entrances. it marks a fixed zone. a fixed space. 35 feet from the clinic entrance that is basically a no-protest zone, a bubble like youve got around polling places, like youve got around military funerals. like the justices of the supreme court enjoy every day. that fixed zone was desi...

35 feet from the clinic entrance that is basically a no-protest zone, a bubble like youve got around polling places, like youve got around military funerals. like the justices of the supreme court enjoy every day. that fixed zone was designed to keep those clinic entrances open and people going in and out of the clinics safe, after decades of murder and mayhem outside clinics just like that. today the supreme court overturned that massachusetts law. from inside their own protective buffer zone, ...

Favor saying that the university could consider race among other factors in admissions. opponents were not to be deterred. in 2006 they were successful in passing a ballot initiative in which voters ban consideration of race by a 58% majority. after being struck down on appeal, the case ended up in the supreme court and here we are today. with a majority ruling that says states are free to pass whatever laws they want, even if it means trampling on rights of a minority the supreme court under ch...