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several have outlawed abortion immediately under the so-called tigger laws that will ban or restrict most abortions in roughly half the country. the biden administration weighing options to try and protect abortion rights. former acting attorney general math i hue whitaker joins us in just a moment, but first alexis mcadams is lye in new york city -- live in new york city with the protests, but let's start with david spunt live at the supreme court. we can hear those crowds still gathering on both sides, chanting, jeering or cheering. david, what's the latest from there? >> reporter:...

this is a culmination of an anonymously long and contentious debate gives it a sense about the importance of this decision as you look back over 50 years. >> it is profoundly important. justice mentioned in his opinion, that decision roe v wade is primarily response over the culture war that ensued. it did a normative damage to the cultural view get these scenes. was justice byron white said from the dissent from that decision it was a raw exercise of judicial power. that is quite the beginning of judicial activism. the most extreme expression of judicial activism. yet we find rights...

It's the one the court created in 1973 when it robbed the states of their right to determine this issue for themselves. in the words of the late, great antonin scalia. >> regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, the constitution does not say anything about it. it leaves it up to democratic choice. some states prohibit it, some states didn't. what roe vs. wade said was that no state can prohibit it. that is simply not in the constitution, it was one of those many things, most things in the world left to democratic choice. >> ...

The House votes to increase the number of visas for Afghans who have helped U.S. troops. Representative Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger, spearheaded legislation that would expand the number of visas available to Afghans who helped the U.S. military during the 20-year war.Credit...Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to expand a visa program for Afghans who are facing retribution for helping American troops and diplomats during the 20-year war in Afghanistan, moving to allow more of them to immigrate to the United States quickly as the Biden admini...