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this is an opinion written by chief justice john roberts. and in the final two opinions of the term, we're seeing how this court is coming down. we saw some opinions earlier in the term, whether it pertained to the affordable care act or student free speech or even religious liberties come down to some interesting vote totals where the liberals in some cases did join but now in these two cases concerning big issues, we're seeing how the court is coming down. 6-3, solidly conservative, guys. >> and remember history behind the 6-3, with neil gorsuch after mitch mcconnell denied president obama's nomination of merrick garland. that is one justice. and then of course barrett following a very late confirmation process in donald trump's term which many republicans said they would not have done so close to the election. that gets you from 6-3 to 4-5 potentially the other direction. jeffrey toobin, there you have it. this is a conservative court. >> you know, as it is often said, elections have consequences. and donald trump got elected president wh

no longer is john rob it -- john roberts the leading justice of the court. a year ago we said it was the roberts court. but also, a year ago there were four justices more conservative than roberts and four more liberal. that put roberts at the center. he was the swing justice. a year ago, he dissented only twice. he was in the majority of 97% of cases. now, there are five justices more conservative than roberts. think of it in terms of it takes four votes. the four most conservative justices might be reluctant to take cases if they know -- if they don't know they have roberts. now they know they likely have five conservative votes. that will change the agenda of the supreme court. john roberts is still the chief assigned to write the majority opinion when he is in the majority. but, what interesting statistic this term. it was brett kavanaugh who was the justice most often in the majority. second, there was no pretense of judicial deference by the court this time. there was a time when judicial conservatism was a deference to elected officials. we do not see

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after citizens united in the huge pressure can campaign was mounted against john roberts and supreme observers believe that that pressure campaign turn robert into a liberal jurist into a political calculator who picked and chose outcomes to avoid incurring the wrath of the progressive left. this policy of saying we will pack the court because there is a few rolling that we lose on because the law is not on our side is entirely designed to pressure the roberts court to give in to their whims and their purely political reasons, and you can't stand the story without first understanding that. >> why put the pressure on justice breyer, the left would love to open up that seat secure, a long tenured justice in the liberal vein, do you think that justice breyer gives into that or do you think he hardens his results as a result of the pressure that he's getting. >> that's a very interesting question obviously president trump's greatest achievements was not one, not to but selling three supreme court seat with pro-constitution jurist, that's an astonishing achievement and there's a lot of ag

i'm john roberts. thanks for being here today. >> jacqui: i'm jacqui heinrich. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. stunning new video of the brazen shooting that broke out in the heart of our nation's capitol. we just got the second angle on this video. happened a mile away from the white house. this is unbelievable. i mean, i watched this ten times today. this is playing out like i said, a mile from the white house. two suspects make their way to the get-away car. police looking for the two suspects. left two people wounded. moments ago, this man trying so hard to do his job

other battles and has the job of guarding general washington prior to the house interact here that john robert forges a special relationship with the commander-in-chief and he forms a level of trust and his trust to solve a problem for him. gunpowder is crucial as john adams has they had plenty of guns, no gunpowder the british knew it and tried to disarm us through gunpowder but it would be the context the marvel headers at that brought in the crucial gunpowder but it was also a novel way that washington would try to capture gunpowder by attacking the british source when he needed ships to do the operation so he turned to john probert to create a navy and the navy, which is preposterous to take basically a fishing boat that john carter had and somehow take on the greatest navy of the time but that's exactly what they did and they attacked british ships and the story of the navy is extraordinary. some of the most colorful and american history, cap and from the red dragon that has a giant cloak with an incredible sense of humor. martindale decides to outfit guns from a lavish amount of money bu

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no longer is john roberts the ideological leading justice of the court. year ago when we talked about the supreme court we could say it was truly the roberts court. we always name it after the chief. but also, a year ago there were four justices more conservative than roberts and four more liberal than roberts. that really put roberts at the center. he was the swing justice. that is reflected in the fact that a year ago, he dissented only twice. he was in the majority in 97% of cases. but now, there are five justices more conservative than roberts. thomas, alito, gorsuch, cavanaugh, and barrett. think of it in terms of granting , it takes four votes to take the case. the four most conservative justices might be reluctant to take cases if they don't know they have a vote by roberts. now they know they likely have five conservative votes. that will change the agenda of the supreme court. i do not want to in role for john roberts. he is still the chief. he is still assigned to write the majority opinion when he is in the majority. but one interesting statisti

in shelby county john roberts invented a principle, equal sovereignty of the states while alito took the republican playbook about lying about voter fraud. he said a state can do whatever it wants if it tries to stop voter fraud, even if there is no voter fraud. if minority voters face all of these burdens, that's not enough to strike down these voter suppression laws. he's enacting all of these new tests that minority voters have to show to strike down discriminatory voting laws while basically giving states carte blanche to suppress voters as long as they point to some perceived threat of fraud, even if there is no fraud, which is exactly what donald trump said in 2020. there's fraud going on, i know it. find 11,780 votes. it was all bs. but now that bs is literally led to samuel alito rewriting the voting rights act. >> that's exactly, exactly right. ari berman, a must-read on this topic. thank you so much. >> thanks so much, chris. >>> like i said at the top, today was a huge news day on time of the seismic supreme court ruling, there are criminal charges against the trump organi

well, and he knows how john roberts son voting rights. breyer would not be looking so much at yesterday's decisions as much as he would be looking at obamacare, on religion we got this here. stephen breyer cut his teeth in the legislative branch working as an aide to the late senator teddy kennedy. and he believes in that kind of process. he might be way too optimistic for washington the way it is these days, michael, but he actually believes that you can work across the aisle and you can work across ideologies. so i don't think he's thinking very much about yesterday's decision, which, talk about a big bang, talk about going out really in a defining way, the two decisions that we got from the roberts court yesterday. i think he's more thinking about the long game, thinking about the abortion rights case coming next term, the gun rights case coming next term, thinking that he might be effective in negotiating to get a bit of a consensus ruling. but that's a very optimistic point of view. but that's him. >> joan, thank you so much for the

john roberts was against that. he lost that battle and congress passed a very broad section two. in 2009. in the northwest austin case, and in 2013 in the shelby county case, he showed his hostility to broad voting rights protection, eventually leading the court in striking down the preclearance provision. in brnovich, although he was not the author of the provision, he essentially got what he wanted in 1982, just many decades later , which is a return to something that the intent test. although section two is not completely eviscerated, the burdens, the roadblocks that the court has put in front of minority plaintiffs should not be underestimated. chair blumenthal: thank you. mr. garza, i would like to ask you about the extraordinary events taking place in texas. but i want to preface it by quoting an exchange that took place in the supreme court hearing on brnovich between justice barrett and michael carbon, which represented the arizona republican party. the question by justice berreth -- justice barrett was , quote, "what is the interest of the arizona rnc in keeping out fof

in 1982, john roberts was a young attorney and special assistant in president reagan's department of justice. it was the same year that congress was debating amending section two to correct a problematic supreme court decision, city of mobile versus bolden. in city of mobile, the supreme court held that voters challenging voting restrictions under section two must meet the purden of showing that the law was adopted with a discriminatory purpose. it was insufficient, according to the court's decision, to show that it had discriminatory impact n. 1982, john roberts wrote, i think it was about 25 memos to the attorney general which are in the public archives advocating against an effects test as it was known. ultimately, his plan filed in 1982, the court agreed with the city of mobile and passed a revised section two that made clear that plaintiffs could challenge voting restrictions by showing they had discriminatory impact. so, professor hassan, in what sense is the court's decision in burno vich a vindication a then attorney, now chief justice robert's policy preferences which congre

>> john: i'm john roberts.afe, but it turns out millions of children will have to mask up whether they need to or not. >> sandra: if you thought princes harry and william had drama, you may be following the wrong royals, torture, and toppling the king of a key ally and u.s. citizens tied in. we will explain that as well, but we begin with a rare dramatic scene happening in cuba and something nobody would even think of. thousands of people risking their lives to protest in the streets against the communist regime that controls every aspect of their daily lives. 60 years of dictatorship and a failing economy made worse by the pandemic, all exploding in the streets there. >> people say food supplies are low and they have no vaccines to protect them against covid. that is stretching 90 miles and a world away into miami. thousands of cuban-americans are rallying in support of the folks back home. >> sandra: this is happening in a unique moment where more americans are using their freedom of expression to question wh

so we could have gotten -- i think the directions from john roberts who wrote the opinion was basically basically how you write your formula -- >> to remind the audience, senator, because you and i are a little too read in on this. >> okay. >> so you had john roberts lead a 5-4 court majority, a narrow majority, as they say, saying there is no more need for preclearance of specific states as provided in the voting rights act. one of those states was arizona. instead he said the legislature should craft a new solution. the new solution was obviously nothing or as you suggested very recently even preclearance for all states so that there is no bias involved. that never happened. so then you say we never saw this coming, what happened after the 2020 election. is that your way of saying that you believe that these election fraud protests by the right are not in good faith? >> well, i think that basically when you say they're going to prohibit counting a ballot and you're a legitimate voter in the state of west virginia, you go to the wrong precinct, that's a provisional ballot. no one can d

another show coming on. >> john: i'm john roberts.ha maccallum in new york. so how about this? we could lose a showdown in the sea in the military with china. that is the reality. so the question is how did that happen? a shocking new report of in depth interviews with 77 current and recent members of all ranks in the u.s. navy reveals that in most cases we fall short because we

i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. thanks for joining us. starts rights now. >> martha: all right. thanks, guys. thank you, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. this is "the story." the streets of cuba, people who protest or pled for freedom are carted off for detention. in chicago, uighurs are interred in concentration camps. the secretary state of the united states, tony blinken, has invitaled the u.n. human rights council to come to america to help confront the scourge of racism, racial discrimination

i'm john roberts. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: big news breaking.y happening in fully vaccinated people? the latest to say that it happened to them, a white house official and an aide to nancy pelosi. all of this after the visit from the texas democrats. you remember them coming on the private plane. six got break-through cases after the plane ride. it raised a lot of questions for the rest of the population. it's a myster

go on the bench, and while in form it looks like you are asking questions of the advocate, as john roberts once said -- and he of course was a stellar supreme court advocate --really you are a basketball backboard and they are bouncing questions off each other and building on each other's comments and responding to each other's questions. that dynamic process is very valuable to the court and almost entirely lost in this. it is not an hour, it is two hours. and also the court's efforts to -- someone has 30 minutes and someone has 10 minutes -- everyone ends up getting the full round of questions. i am eager for the court to get back on the bench and open -- an open question is whether life audio, which is an on alloyed good, will remain with the court back on the bench, but i think the downside, justice thomas's participation rate. a chance to have a look at justice barrett, whose questions were exceptionally good right out of the box, great. but this lockstep, one after the other form, no good at all. then just from a journalistic perspective it really robs you of your ability to see wher

go on the bench, and while in form it looks like you are asking questions of the advocate, as john roberts once said -- and he of course was a stellar supreme court advocate --really you are a basketball backboard and they are bouncing questions off each other and building on each other's comments and responding to each other's questions. that dynamic process is very valuable to the court and almost entirely lost in this. it is not an hour, it is two hours. and also the court's efforts to -- someone has 30 minutes and someone has 10 minutes -- everyone ends up getting the full round of questions. i am eager for the court to get back on the bench and open -- an open question is whether life audio, which is an on alloyed good, will remain with the court back on the bench, but i think the downside, justice thomas's participation rate. a chance to have a look at justice barrett, whose questions were exceptionally good right out of the box, great. but this lockstep, one after the other form, no good at all. then just from a journalistic perspective it really robs you of your ability to see wher

i'm john roberts in washington.and the plan to keep her safe all of it months in the making. >> get ready to dig deeper into your wallet as prices of just about everything sore. economist say it's going to last longer than expected. could it have all been avoided if democrats simply put away the pen and checkbook. >> the big warning when it comes to your pet goldfish. all of that on the way along with more varied like you need more goldfish. after a fox news alert here. ♪ singing ♪ >> it is not britney, it's big brother, the global superstars fight for personal liberty and freedom bringing the bright lights of vegas to a dark reality for many of americans. she says it's ranged from force labor to having birth-control implanted in her body against her will. >> she is set for another round in court this afternoon and she fights to get out of the conservatorship her father has controlled with the government backing for the more than a decade. rallies to support her head popped up coast-to-coast in here in dc, where a r

john roberts fought againstip that.hows his hostility to broad expections leading the court in striking down the provision. he's essentially gotten what he got in 1982 just many decades something like the intense test brother section two is not completely eviscerated the burden, the roadblocks the court has put in front of minority plaintiff should not be underestimated. thank you. >> i like to ask you about the extraordinary events taking place in texas. i want to preface it by quoting an exchange that took place in the supremebu court hearing between justice barrett and michael carver in her represented the arizona republican party. question by justice barrett was quote what is the interest of the arizona rnc and keeping count of precinct to ballot rules on the books. and michael's question answer was it puts us the republican party at a disadvantage relative to democrats. and in that event that case pretty obvious acknowledgment was that the goal was in effect suppression of votes. so my question to you is, in texas

joining us now is john robert dacey, the swiss re ceo. losses of last time. tell me a little bit about -- clearly that was a story of covid-19 impact. tell me a little about how that has evolved and hit the business . john: the covid losses in 2020 were actually quite large for us, but especially on the property casualty side. we have seen develop in the first half of 2021 is we continue unfortunately to have major mortality losses, especially in the united states in the first quarter of this year. they have continued to a lesser degree in the second cord. we booked a loss of $870 million related to covid, $810 of that is in our life and health business. the property number has been reduced to a small number and we do not expect them to grow anytime in the next two quarters either. we think the losses for mortality will continue, unfortunately, but as major markets continue the vaccination programs and we see people actually responding very well to these hospitalizations down, deaths down that that number will also be a fraction of what i

i'm john roberts in washington. >> this all began about 9:30:00 a.m. eastern time. going to the 1:00 hour obviousl we've heard some very compellin testimony from many of the officers that are on duty at th capital that they. the description from his officers is how they thought they were going to die that day. the threat has not gone away an that one point the republicans sitting on the committee went from laughter to tears at one point describing why was so important for him to stand up i the face of what happened. the house minority leader has submitted five republicans to the panel. kevin mccarthy told the rest of the. we saw a lot of very dramatic video that we saw initially played during the insurrection on january 6th. >> if you are watching you saw compelling at times damning emotional testimony from these four officers that held the lin to try to protect the capital and the lawmakers inside. for anybody watching and watch the videos their testimony abou that day and thought it wasn't violent think it's an eye-opener. we talked about january 6th a lot in the

you mentioned that the administrative office of the courts sort of headed by john roberts has asked for 79 new judgeships to be created. i think that's a good start, that has to be the baseline. when you look as congress ann jones said, and leah said, like, case loads have exploded over the last 30 years, and what john roberts is proposing here with these 79 courts, new judgeships is only a fraction of what's necessary. you know, during the carter administration, congress expanding the courts by a third. that actually is keeping line with the increasing case load since 1990, with the increasing population since 1990. i think we need a much bigger, more robust expansion of the lower courts to really get to this administration of justice. you know, if you don't have your court case heard for years, that has a big impact not only on criminal justice but also on civil justice. these are conversations that have to be happening at the same time as the one we're having right now on supreme court reform. >> and there has been, as you said, jen, bipartisan support for expanding the courts. todd

i'm sandra smith in new york. >> john: i'm john roberts in washington. see you monday. uys, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. breaking right now on "the story," as calls to help the people of cuba are intensifying, it would take the white house authority to help keep the internet moving in cuba. it's a powerful tool for protesters and their fight for freedom. florida governor ron desantis is urging president biden to do something. they could deploy high altitude balloons that send a wi fi signal to smart phones on the ground in cuba. it's amazing technology, built

i think, jen, you mentioned that the administrative office of the court, headed by john roberts, has asked for 79 new judgeships to be created. i think that's a good start but that has to be the baseline. we need to look, as congressman john said and we have said, case loads have exploded over the last 30 years and what john roberts is proposing here with these 79 quotes -- new judgeships -- is really only a fraction of what's really necessary. you know, during the carter administration, congress expanded the courts by 13. that, actually, is keeping aligned with the increasing caseload since 1990, with the increasing population since 1990. i think we need a much bigger, more robust expansion of the lower courts to really get to this administration of justice. you know, if you don't have your court case heard for years, that has a big impact, not only on criminal justice, but also on civil justice, and i think those are conversations that absolutely have to be happening at the same time as the one we're having right now on the supreme court. >> and there has been, as you said, bipartis

i'm john roberts on washington. sandra, great to see you. >> sandra: great to be back together again, i'm sandra smith in new york. president biden's chief medical advisor dr. fauci said it's likely that new federal guidance could encourage everyone to wear masks in public again. places like los angeles county and st. louis have already taken that step. >> john: in the following weeks of following vaccination rates the there was actually an uptick in shots over the weekend as the u.s. grapples with what the cdc is calling it a pandemic the unvaccinated. we start off this monday afternoon at the white house with mark meredith where the biden administration debates what to do about masks. where dirt doesn't look like they are going? >> it looks like they will follow the cdc guidance when it comes to when and where people should wear a mask but officials say that guidance could of course change depending on how the u.s. handles the variant of the virus that continues to spread over the next couple of weeks. as of right

i'm john roberts in washington. >> this all began about 9:30:00 a.m. eastern time. going to the 1:00 hour obviousl we've heard some very compellin testimony from many of the officers that are on duty at th capital that they.

that's after john roberts gutted the other provisional act back in 2013.o sections, section 2 and section 5 were the most important ways to enforce changing voter laws before and after the fact and they've both been significantly weakened. now the need for veteran voting legislation is needed more than ever. there's a question whether any grand bargain is possible. republicans have voted to protect against fraud in exchange for voter floor protection and access. a couple of weeks ago we saw a glimmer o whatever it might look like when you saw joe manchin propose a set of changes for the voting people act. when voting rights activist stacy abraks changed those endorsements, her endorsement was enough to kill the bill for the republicans, which leaves in mind the question, is there anything present here? we have our guests with us. maria, let me start with you. i sometimes think if you could sit down in an abstract universe, you could consider a universe in which you could pencil out a big bargain on national voting standards, but to me it shows in a practic

john robert came up with a very novel solution to deal with the problem. his version of self-defense is inside the foyer of his house. i recall finding the original papers from his family. and as the mob circle the house hundreds of men ready to kill him open the doors thrust open and that cannon was there in the foyer facing the mob. he had a torch in his hand and told them to disperse and they did. he made a stand and it was emblemati and then how john would conduct himself through the rest of the war. >>er so they bring in the main supply of speed to the revolutionary war so john glover is involved in lexington and concorde also to guard general washington from the battle longer help. and here john for did a very special relationship to form that level of trust. looking to solve a problem. gunpowder is necessary the colonists had plenty of guns but no gunpowder and the british knew it they tried to disarm syria gunpowder. but to bring in that crucial gunpowderai but it would be a novel way that washington would capture more gunpowder by attacking the br

on john roberts in washington. his administration has been considering a requirement for federal workers to either get the shots or face repeated testing. at the same time we are asking new mask mandates to take effect including one that comes with a warning. mask up or get locked up. >> a woman walking her dog in one of atlanta's most popular parks discovered dead and disfigured. her dog also stopped to death beside her. be one of the summer far marked by violent crime, the six-story stands out. much more about the scene in this park, describing it only has gray cement saying it has all of them concerned. >> steve harrigan is live with the latest on the ground in atlanta. >> sandra, even veteran homicide detectives in atlanta are shocked by the nature of this crime. it happened right here behind me in piedmont park, in midtown atlanta, 185 acres of green grass. people come here to jog or walk their dogs and that's what catherine janice was doing. she was walking her dog after dinner and when she failed to return h

i'm in for john roberts jay. staggering statistics coming from a crime pledge chicago will be on his mind. one of their own offices working undercover was shot while driving on the freeway. all are supposed be okay. >> sandra: the windy city is reporting its deadliest weekend over the air over the fourth of july holiday weekend. 18 people were killed in a shooting and 100 others were moved down like wounded. the death of a college student hit by a stray bullet that came through a train window. about 45 millionths northwest of the city where the president is expected to speak a short time from now. >> hello. air force one is now on the ground with president biden and chicago's troubled mayor lori lightfoot is taking place as we speak. what she has this time around is a democrat in the white house. if you remember back to the trump years, she resisted any federal intervention it or any help coming from the white house. now, she welcomes it is and resources. but she also has its a big crime problem. 100 people shot

the two hello, i am eric shawn and for john roberts. that report comes just after president biden announces new steps to increase the vaccination rate. the cdc director says that the delta variant is one of the most transmissible virus as she has ever seen and is calling for extreme measures to be taken. >> sandra: the delta variant is as contagious as the chicken pox. vaccinated people may be able to spread the virus just as easy as those who are unvaccinated, but vaccines are still preventing severe disease and more than 90% of all cases. >> eric: that is reassuring, but we have team fox coverage and marc siegel joining us in just a few moments. we go to stay. >> at this point, there seems to be a gap between the drama and the alarm bells from that "washington post" report which excites internal documents of the cdc. some real alarm bells such as "this requires a new war." we need to take "extreme measures." all of that in the internal documents. as far as today because, with the cdc just raising some information, does alarm bells are

. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: thank you, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. sadly, this is a warning that is becoming all too familiar as we continue to cover the violent crime that is all across the country in hour cities. the videos that we'll show you are disturbing. what is happening is deeply disturbing. we need to see it for what it is. it's happening to san francisco and chicago and beyond. these are in new york. this weekend a 68-year-old man beaten in broad daylight in brooklyn. what did he get for all of that and all the injury he did to this man? he got a phone and some jewelry. then you have this one. an off duty firefighter out walking his dog in the evening when he's swarmed by a group of wilding teens that start moving all around him and egging each other on to beat him up. he was knocked off his feet. police are still looking for the police that did this. this was an attack earlier. a woman that was beaten on the ground. pushed out of her walker. the attackers got $22 and no police here. so police are hunt

i'm john roberts. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: thanks very much, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york. breaking now, there's no escaping the reality that crime is now very much front and center on the minds of american as cross this country. take a look at this poll, this is abc news "washington post" poll. it shows this worry is actually at a 20-year high. in fact, more people also disapprove of the job that the president is doing on this than approve. as a result, democrat as peer to be having a come to jesus moment on this. the president is scrambling to get a handle what's going on. he's having a listening session with law enforcement and local officials from around the united states. the d.c. mayor there to the president's right. we'll take you live any moment. the officials will walk out and talk about what was discussed in there and one of the big issues is how hard is it going to be to hit reverse on these woke policies that have in many ways destroyed cities and have decimating our police departments because of these policies.

russo, which chief justice john roberts sided with the majority. in that case also to strike down a louisiana law. if you allow me one more moment, it strikes me that we should be thinking about perhaps brown be -- the board of education. because in the backdrop of whole women's health, or even roe v. wade, we see these cases that seek to undermine the constitutional right to be able to terminate a pregnancy. and it reminds me that if the state had tried to undermine brown v. board of education, by enacting laws that would in fact conflict with the supreme court's jurisprudence, when you are attempting to do today, and your colleagues is to preserve the right for women and people who become pregnant to carry out their decision-making with independence, autonomy, privacy, and dignity. and you, in a way, it is a wave leaning into that in such a way that we could lean into brown v. board of education being protected if there were laws that sought to undermine desegregation in the united states. >> thank you. we are about to end, unless you want to tak