Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20220107 21:39

CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper January 7, 2022 21:39:00

today. really this argument went on for four-plus hours but it boils down to two fundamental questions. one is the mandate too broad and, two, who gets to decide in the lawyers for the biden administration argued it's not too broad. we're in an unpressing dented emergency. a grave danger under the law. we have to do something to stop this and they argued it's the federal government, osha's responsibility to issue this. but the lawyers are in the challengers, a group of red leaning states and businesses argued this is overbroad. it doesn't make a distinction. and they argued and they are right on this. traditionally this is a state function. this is what we call the police powers of the state and the justices seem to be very much in line with that. so i think they are leaning heavily toward striking this down. >> joan, i heard assertions made by the supreme court justices today that were simply false. one example, justice sotomayor said, quote, we have over 100,000 children which we've

Related Keywords

Biden Administration , One , Questions , Argument , Two , Lawyers , Mandate , Emergency , Unpressing , Four , Something , Government , Businesses , Group , States , Law , Challengers , Grave Danger , Osha , Responsibility , Red Leaning , Supreme Court Justices , Estate , State Function , Police Powers , It Doesn T , Distinction , Justice , Line , Sotomayor , Joan , Children , Assertions , Down , Quote , Example , 100000 ,

© 2025 Vimarsana