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more history will also be made in the high court in minutes. judge ketanji brown jackson will be sworn in as the first black female justice on the supreme court. she will take the oath just after justice stephen breyer officially retires. let's start with cnn's jessica schneider. she is live at the supreme court for us this hour. quite a way to round out the term. >> reporter: absolutely. two big decisions from the supreme court. first in that 6-3 decision the supreme court really restricting the epa's power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. and at the same time the sup...

From other sources. but power plants are clearly an important piece of the puzzle, and this does hamstring epa's ability to address the emissions from power plants, and that is deeply disturbing because we already see a transition happening in the industry. what we should be doing is encouraging more renewables, not walking away from the reality of how we can make less polluting energy, how we can generate less polluting electricity. we have the solutions. we can build a clean energy future, and this court is simply not prepared to look at how the world is functioning today. >> the white house...

Much. a lot to get to. chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin is here and supreme court biographer joan biskupic as well. jeffrey, let's start with the epa decision. how much do you see this when you look at how the majority opinion was written, how much is this going to tie the hands of the agency going forward? >> a lot, a lot. you know, this has been a tremendous goal of the conservative legal movement for decades. which is restricting the power of federal agencies. the gist here is, you know, the congress passes laws that are necessarily general about the environment or about financial regulat...