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M marry someone of the opposite sex or the same same-sex. will you about able to separate this out and put it in a box with decisions concerning potential life, and that those other kinds of issues don't involve potential life. but, obviously, many americans might disagree. and i suspect that the dissents you'll see in this case are going to really zero in on that question could this decision have a more dramatic impact, despite the assurances that alito tries to give in the draft opinion. >> josh gerstein of politico, we're on the precipice of a historic moment. this is a scoop like we've nev...

Supported by five republican justices. reaffirmed in casey decision generations later. abortion rights broadly popular with the american people, with 69% opposing roe being overturned according to a recent cnn poll. 86% of democrats, 72% of independents and even 44% of republicans. but not only that, according to gallop last year, 19% of americans thought that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances. 32% thought it should be legal in all circumstances. and 48% said it should be legal only under certain circumstances. it all speaks to the complexity of this personal issue. for what it's...

Abortion. and saying we're only talking abortion here. this decision has no impact on any other decision which is critics have said are based on more broad and vague themes in the constitution. arguably. the word "pr"privacy" not reall appearing there. obviously, the word "abortion" not appeared in that document drafted in 1870 but can you tuck abortion out of the jurisprudence and say we're going to take all of that out and leave contraception and the right to marry someone of a different race, can you say those things can remain and we pull this out. and you can lead to to examples regarding...

Thomas for whom i clerkednf his confirmation afterir the casey decision after after lawrence v. texas all these cases, the legitimacy of the court is called into i question. what about now? so the justice chief justice, it'snow incumbent upon him to bring every law clerk before him. give me your phone. sorry. i'm sorry. or the fbi. give me your phone. we want all your accounts. we've got we got to do our own you know, we have to do our own look atnd every device that you've ever used and find out who did this . james, the fbi expert here tell me what could be done. >> yeah, well, i hope our fb...

Opinion in 1973. in opinion after opinion over the next 50 years, 49 years, the supreme court ratified that view. most famously in 1992 in the casey decision where the court again reaffirmed roe v wade but justice scalia and thomas have been -- were criticizing that opinion over and over again saying the constitution itself says nothing about abortion. the constitution doesn't recognize the right to abortion, doesn't prohibit, doesn't grant a right to abortion. it simply is a political issue that should be decided by the states, the way most political issues are decided by the states. justice ...