sm mark rulings. here is chief legal correspondent and fox news sunday anchor. hands up. reporter: another day of decisions split, 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court. an opinion by chief justice john robert, the majority struck down the biden administration plan to wipe out $430 billion in student loan debt. we hope the act allows the education secretary to waive or mo modify existing provisions. not to rewrite the statute from the ground up. they argue the secretary did have the power. the statute gives the secretary broad thought to relieve it on borrowers able to repay student loans. president biden who has vowed to wipe out student loan debt conceding he may not have the authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. did you of step your authority? i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. reporter: the court recognized a concrete right for free speech for a colorado web designer who says she shou
at issue, a colorado business seeking permission not to work for same-sex wedding couples, only this time it wasn t the baker. that case was decided in 2018 when jack phillips refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. back then the court narrowly decided for the baker but didn t determine whether a business owner s speech writes can justify refusing service to gay couples. well, five miles from the colorado baker is a graphic artist named lorie smith who will join me momentarily. she said she didn t want to create any same-sex wedding message at odds with her religious beliefs. she said she had never received a request to design a same-sex couple site, nor had she turned anyone down. smith won. a majority of the court saw colorado s public accommodation laws an unconstitutional attempt by the state to compel her speech. the minority cast the outcome as the first time the court permitted a commercial business to refuse service to a protected class. justice neil gorsuch
required her to create wedding websites for same sex couplew t now is similar to the colorado r baker who won a similar caseleft before the court in 2018. reactedthe left immediately red by making predictable claims about attacks on rights.even but that s not what it s about. even s smith, the web designer, says this is not about choosing who to work with. it s quote, about choosing the methods that i m being asked to promote. white house press secretarylaimd karine jean-pierre complained that the ruling takes us backwards. disappoi first, we are deeplye disappointed in the supreme court on todays decision today a creative, which takekes our nation backward in the fight for equality. this decision undermines the basic truth that nominati american shoulond face discrimination for who they are or who they love eve. and it s even more disappointing as we close out pride month and the vice wih president agree with the press secretar y. re she claimed the decision, quote, thre
in for harris today on the faulkner focus. john roberts writing in the majority opinion, this court has never drawn the line the secretary suggests and for good reason. among congress s most important authorities is its control of the purse. justice kagan with dissent writing the majority overrides the combined judgment of the legislative and executive branches with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million americans. i respectfully dissent from that decision. white house says we ll hear from the president directly on this ruling later today. in the meantime let s bring in shannon bream, fox news chief legal correspondent. a lot of political back and forthing now in washington responding to this decision but at the end of the day as you pointed out last hour, the court was not ruling on whether this was a good policy or fair policy. the court was ruling on whether the president had the constitutional authority to issue this directive in the first place.
who refuses to sell to gay marriage come in a blow to lgbtq rights. here are tonight s headlines. a restriction to the power of the biden administration as the president condemns today s ruling. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. today s decision has closed one path. now we are going to pursue another. a new record for the july 4th holiday. aaa is predicting that nearly 51 million of us in this country will be on the move. tsa and airline safety expect next week. storms will continue into our holiday weekend. john: actors poised to strike. the current contract for the screen actors guild nears expiration, while the writers guild it s day 60 of their strike. we are here is actors today, standing in solidarity with writers. [applause] riots erupted across france, for a third straight night, following the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop. and the oscar goes to. alan arkin, little miss sunshine.