swore to support and defend the constitution and, quote, administer justice. all the members of the court, i m pleased to welcome justice jackson to the court and to our common calling. cnn supreme court reporter ariane devogue is with us now. good to see you. before the swearing in, we saw two big decisions from the court. now, let s start on the decision, curbing the epa s powers to fight climate change. what s the impact? right. this was a significant opinion. basically saying, curbing the epa s authority here when it comes to power plants. it was broken down along ideological lines. chief justice john roberts delivering this big blow to president biden, and it comes, of course, as scientists are raising alarms about global warming. what chief justice roberts did is he reversed a lower court that had given the epa broad authority to regulate in this area, so to regulate the entire grid instead of specific improvements at specific power plants, but roberts said, look,
Porter, who previously worked as a law professor at UC Irvine is continuing “to reap the benefits” of the institution s housing apparatus, despite no longer working there full time.
big sort of culture war issues as well going forward from this court. around affirmative action, elections, and voting rights as well. so the big question isn t what the ideological make-up of the court will be, because i think we know that for years to come. dr conservatives are going to be in the majority. her identity as a justice is still an open question. will she be more like kagan, sort of a compromiser, or will she be more like sotomayor, who is the sort of progressive firebrand in kind of rider on that court. we ll see. but it is a historic moment and that should certainly be noted. but not unitquite the kind of history that she thought she d be stepping into, probably. alisyn, not for nothing, if i may, the three liberals all women, right? are women. a black woman, a latina, and a jewish woman. right.
green party activist and one-time progressive firebrand in the arizona senate has had over the course of her kroob wst the a little hard to know where she s coming from in her latest political incarnation, but her brand of renegade politics is fundamentally a dead end in ways that should be appreciated, even by those of us who would think that the democratic party would benefit from a bit more. and the argument is, no one knows where kyrsten sinema stands. at least joe manchin is saying, this is where i stand. this is my top line. this is what i won t go beyond. and let s be honest. washington, d.c. understands characters like joe manchin. he s transactional. he s wheeling and dealing. he s making a thing that is in his head best for him politically and best for his state financially. sinema is a much more sort of elliptical figure. you can t quite pin down what she wants. but with manchin, you know what he s after. the guy absolutely transparent about it. and it harkens back to a ki
they have spent weeks now merging in two months now, negotiating with republicans about what republicans want from an infrastructure bill. even though the leader mitch mcconnell promised ahead of time and in public that there won t be republican senate votes for the infrastructure bill, he d said that out loud in public in advance which should have been a clear thing. he said there will be, and i quote, zero republicans who will vote for the infrastructure bill. but still even though he said that at the beginning of may weeks now drifting into months now there is the democrats talking earnestly with republicans about a thing they definitely will not vote for no matter what. while time passes, while a lot of time seems to be passing. progressive firebrand congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez put a fine point on this problem earlier this month. she said during the obama