justice anthony kennedy joined stephen breyer and all three women justices, striking down the restrictionss an undue burden on access to abortion. the lead plaintiff in the case celebrated the ruling outside the court. >> from day one, whole women's health rejected the insulting premise of house bill 2. we took on the bully politicians and we have struggled against anti-choice regressive politics and our opposition's efforts to shut us down and we won. today, we make history and tomorrow, we get back to work, so that everyone who seeks abortion services can get the health care she deserves with dignity and respect. amy: the texas legislature passed the sweeping anti-choice law in 2013 despite a filibuster and an 11-hour standby state senator wendy davis. the supreme court ruling strikes down the costly standards of hospital style surgery centers and mandating doctors obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. already about more than half of texas' 40 abortion clinics have closed. if the law had gone into effect, 10would have left texas with clinics clustered in the four metropolitan

amy: i want to read from justice stephen breyer's opinion for the majority.abortions taking place in an abortion facility are safe -- indeed, safer than numerous procedures that take place outside hospitals and to which texas does not apply its surgical-center requirements. nationwide, childbirth is 14 times more likely than abortion to result in death, but texas law allows a midwife to oversee childbirth in the patient's own home." breyer also noted a colonoscopy -- a procedure that typically takes place outside a hospital setting -- has a mortality rate 10 times higher than an abortion. and, the mortality rate for liposuction, another outpatient procedure, is 28 times higher than the mortality rate for abortion. ce, talk about the significan of the decision and these two particular regulations that they struck down, the surgery-style center you have to have and having admitting privileges at the local hospital. stephanie: what is so galling about these laws is that they are a sham, they are not designed to promote women's health. those statistics demonstrat

justice stephen breyer writing the majority opinion saying, "there was no significant health-related problem that the new law helped to cure." and, ".the surgical-center requirement, like the admitting- few, if any, health benefits for >> reporter:texas governor greg abbott responding, "the decision erodes states' lawmaking authority to safeguard the health and safety of women and subjects more innocent life to being lost." but legal experts noted it was texas' own argument about health and safety that may have proved problematic. this issue of whether these were medically necessary requirements and they weren't medically necessary for a place, for example that performs colonoscopies, and they have a higher rate of danger to the patient, so why outside of being an "undue burden" would a state require this for abortion clinics. the late justice antonin scalia's opinion would not have changed the outcome of this ruling -- but the ruling highlighted -- for supporters and opponents alike -- how important the future of the supreme court will be in this year's presidential election. in was

crammed-to-capacity super facilities where they are less likely to get individualized attention, wrote justice stephen breyer, and find that the quality of care declines. nancy northup, president of center for reproductive rights, hailed the decision as a game changer. >> and we will go forward in making sure that all of the laws that are blocking women's access to the constitutional rights will be overturned. >> reporter: but carrie severino, head of the conservative judicial confirmation network, said the decision was based on politics. >> this court has been so clear in their political leanings on this issue that i can't imagine an abortion regulation that they would uphold at this point. that's unfortunate. >> reporter: now the three dissenting justices called the ruling indefensible and said the court rewrote legal rules to reach today's result. they said these laws were intended to shut down unsafe clinics, charlie, and they said if they had been on the books in pennsylvania, it would have prevented the death of that patient and three infants at the clinic there. >> rose: jan crawford at the supreme co

that, wrote justice stephen breyer, "poses a substantial obstacle."e for laws in a dozen other states was designed to protect women's health. >> today, women lost. today, the supreme court put politics over the help and safety of women in our country. >> during the time it was in effect, a number of fell performing abortions dropped from 42 to 19 and some say it would have fallen to ten. a sweeping ruling but unlikely the last word on abortion from the supreme court. the court has been recessed until october with a vacant seat unlikely to be filled by the time the justices return. live at the supreme court, i'm brian mooar, chris, back to you. >> thank you so much, brian. first at 4:00, a man ended up in the water in potomac. witnesses say the man went in shortly afternoon. he was found near grapevine island and they were able to pull him onto a boat. the man is expected to be okay. >> since scattered showers and a few the small umbrella handy. here's the latest in light showers moving in to prince george's county, rain around baltimore. it's further

in the majority opinion justice stephen breyer wrote "the law provides few if any health benefits forck toll women seeking abortions and constant tooul constitutes an undue burden on their constitutional right to do so." >> women across america have this h. their constitutional rights vindicated. >> reporter: by yiter dissenting opinion justice clarence thomas wro wrote, "the court has simultaneously transformed judicially created rights like the right to abortion into preferred constitutional rights while disfavoring many of the rights actually enumerated in the constitution." >> we were really disappointed. the five justices let us down. we did face a loss. but the pro-life generation is coming back stronger than ever. >> reporter: i'm mary maloney reporting. >>> sources say volkswagen is set to announce a record $15 billion settlement in its emissions scandal. the german automaker admitted to selling about 11 million cars with software designed to cheat emissions tests. the settlement would cover consumer claims and fines. a federal court still has to approve the deal. the company

the 5-3 decision written by justice stephen breyer considered two parts of the texas law requirement clinics meet the same standard as ambulatory surgical centers and another requiing doctors that perform abortion have hospital admitting privileges, that abortion clinics spread out across the clinic meet the same standards as full-fledged hospitals. at the crux of the case was the willingness to cut through claims to such regulations for women themselves, cases that had been taken at face value by lower courts. justice breyer. when directly asked at oral argument whether texas knew of a single treatment, texas admitted there was no evidence of such a case. the majority found as admitting privileges of the law was enforced the number of facilities proviing abortions dropped in half from 40 to 20 and number of facilities would drop to seven or eight if the surgical center took place. that was an undue burden in violation of planned parent v kasie that upheld the seminal abortion rights case roe v. wade. it has implications for a dozen other states. joining me the president of the cente

la opinión escrita por el juez stephen breyer asegura que las regulaciones son medicamente innecesariasbeneficios para mujeres que buscan abortar. activistas pro-vida como margot loza no se esperaban la decisión. s/margot loza, activista "es una derrota para todas las mujeres aquí en estados unidos porque la ley de tejas lo que quería hacer es proteger la salud de mujeres en facilidades de aborto". este lunes fue el último día de decisiones de la corte suprema hasta el próximo término. tanto esta decisión como varias otras, este año, se dieron con solamente ocho jueces tras la muerte del juez antonin scalia en febrero. s/randy serrano en este caso el voto de scalia muy probablemente no hubiera hecho mucha diferencia ya el conservador seguramente hubiera votado a favor de la ley y aun así hubiera estado entre la minoria del voto. take vo cesar --la corte suprema confirmo en washington una ley federal que --la corte suprema confirmo en washington una ley federal que rechaza el porte y posesion de armas para las personas que han tenido condenas por violencia domestica. --sin embargo, algun

amar clerked for then judge stephen breyer. he is also a recipient of yale's highest award for teaching excellence and is the author of several books including "the law of the land: a grand tour of our constitutional republic." i think that akhil was voted the most popular professor at yale. at least he is my most popular professor. and you are all here because he is your most popular professor. before we invite our popular professor upon the stage, please turn off cell phones or electronic devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. thank you. [applause] dr. amar: good evening. welcome. thank you so much for coming. this is the new york historical society. we're going to be talking about the supreme court and we will be talking about these supreme court history, but also talking about the new york angle on all of this, because this is the new york historical society. and, yes, why is this night different from all others? well, here is one thought. it is really only this week -- it has become, i think, pretty apparent tha

adam: lots of justices, including liberal and noted justice stephen breyer seemed to have a lot of sympathyor the former governor's legal position. charlie: thank you my friend, it is great to have you. adam: great to be here. charlie: adam liptak in the new york times. economic, stay with us. ♪ ♪ charlie: tonight, we look at america's ongoing battle against extremism. it has been 11 days since the largest shooting took place in orlando florida. in the aftermath, questions of homegrown terrorism and gun control have come to a head. be tracked and stopped? is gun control a security issue? there was a sit in in the house to mending control on the legislation. this ended with paul ryan and fellow republicans reclaiming bill.l through a spending the u.s. political and military strategy in the fight against extremism has come under fire last friday. 51 state department officials signed an internal memo protesting u.s. policy in syria very they urged president obama to carry out strikes against the syrian government to stop the persistent violations of the cease-fire and to gain some leverage in

amar clerked for then judge stephen breyer. he is also a recipient of yale's highest award for teaching excellence and is the author of several books including "the law of the land: a grand tour of our

what this opinion written by justice stephen breyer for the other four members of the court said in the past the texas law said doctors had to have appropriate arrangements with doctors at hospitals if there was a complication and they needed to get a patient in there. but the court said the number of complications from abortions is among the smallest for any surgical procedure. seco secondly, the law says abortion clinics have to be built to the same standards, staffing, equipment, architecture and so forth of walk-in surgical centers. and the court said that doesn't make much sense when you consider a large number of abortions require taking only two pills. the woman comes in, takes a pill and goes home. if complications are going to arise, they're going to arise at home, not in the clinic. for all those reasons, the court said these are additional obstacles without any medical benefits and, therefore, unconstitutional. >> and, pete, taking it one step further, texas is obviously just one of a number of states that has similar restrictions. do you anticipate this is going to have impl

stephen breyer is almost 80. clarence thomas just turned 68.tandards, this is an old court and they are going to have vacancies. >> thank you both for being with us. >>> the funerals continue for the 49 people killed by gunman at the pulse nightclub in orlando. there were more this weekend. some family members are haunted by questions. two weeks later they have not been told exactly how their loved ones died. they are asking why it took so long for police to reach their family members. we will have some of their stories and i will speak to the police chief next. is happening now at red lobster. and if you love lobster and shrimp, ...check out all these new entrees. like new coastal lobster and shrimp... ...with summer ale barbeque sauce, ...and new lobster and shrimp overboard. overboard? nah, ...it's just right. so hurry in. [so i use quickbooks and run mye entire business from the cloud. i keep an eye on sales and expenses from anywhere. even down here in the dark i can still see we're having a great month. and celebrate accordingly. i run on

host: you mentioned justice stephen breyer.is views on the death penalty recently in his latest book. he had this to say about it. can you talk a little bit about the current justices on the supreme court and the current vacancy? how that might affect how the court rules. breyer was joined by justice ruth bader ginsburg in that point. perhapsonia sotomayor has sympathies in that direction as well. i'm not sure we have enough justices to talk about overturning the death penalty at this point. the death of justice antonin scalia was a huge blow for the pro-death penalty folks. he was one of the most vigorous supporters. the court also issued a decision this week in the death on thursday, ruling that a state judge was wrong to participate in a death row case where he previously served as a prosecutor. host: it is a straight up prejudice case. the judge was involved as a prosecutor and it shows that the court is really nibbling around the edges of these death penalty cases. procedures,l the dotted and t'sbe to be crossed. whether t

on the other side, and the majority opinion was written by justice stephen breyer, clinton appointee, and it is extremely fact focus. it's very long, very detailed just to ge give you since i'm is not a lot of good quotes in it because it doesn't sort of convey a super broad legal principle or really try to make a stand. it's all about texas tried to make this argument and we think that's incorrect for this particular reason, this came up at the trial court and we thinkt the trial court got it right.it so it sort of is nearly written but it is so thorough that a lot of people think it might be pretty useful in trying to knock down similar laws in other states. >> and one for those three who opposed the decision, what was the legal arguments they putgue: out? >> caller: justice alito wrote a really long dissent arguing that the court should not have taken the case, should take it back down to a lower court. the are several levels of which the conservative justices were unhappy. they were unhappy with the outcomes, first and foremost, and that slide over into justict thomas said we shou

this decision was written by justice stephen breyer, writing for the supreme court he said that restrictionshat texas tried to put in place would have led to an undue burden on the woman's right to an abortion. texas passed this restrictive law back in 2013 and it would have required them to act more like hospital surgical centers so they would have had to spend hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of dollars to upgrade the facilities. the law would have required doctors who work at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at local hospitals and many clinics did not have those kind of doctors there and staff. so they too would have closed. opponents said these laws estimate that it would have forced up to ten of the state's remaining clinics to close, leaving only nine or ten clinics in place in the state of texas. this went beyond texas. other states were passing similar laws or considering similar laws, so had the court upheld this law in this instance, not only would it have affected texas but it would have prompted other states to pass similar laws restricting the woman'

stephen breyer will be in his 80s. anthony kennedy will be in his 80s. and clarence thomas is not exactly a spring chicken at 68. so even if there are not immediate resignations, you know, life being what it is, people tend to leave their jobs well before their early 80s. >> let's go back to the reaction from the u.s. supreme court, a guest to talk to. >> i'm joined by elizabeth, legal analyst and president of the constitutional accountability center. elizabeth, you also wrote a brief in favor of the abortion rights activists. obviously, this is a big win for you. what is the significance of this ruling today? >> it's a big win because justice kennedy joined the more liberal justices. reaffirming that you can't make an end-run around the constitutional right to have abortion by putting up these laws that purport to protect a woman's health but really have no relationship to the woman's health. the court said clearly they are not necessary. >> not only not necessary but unconstitutional. what is the significant of justice kennedy siding with the liberals

justice stephen breyer wrote the opinion for the court and justice to milliliter with the dissenting opinion. rulingeaction from the and then pro-life advocates from the group concerned women of america. [applause] >> good morning, we are the lawyers that represented the clinics. today, women across america have had their constitutional rights vindicated. [applause] court has sent a clear message to the tactics of politicians who have used underhanded means to shut down abortion clinics. health andwomen's the other clinics in the state of texas will remain open. [applause] and there is a hope and possibility that other clinics can now open to represent women in so many other underrepresented parts of the state. [applause] today'squestion, supreme court decision is a game changer. in the unrelenting assault on healtheld and -- women's and her going on in state legislatures for years. this is a tremendous victory and we will go forward in making betterat all of the loss blogging women's access to the constitutional rights will be overturned. [applause] we will not stop fighting and we

this is from the justices, the opinion that was actually handed down, and justice stephen breyer saidhat upheld the law was wrong and that the courts are required to consider the burdens together with the benefits. so basically these clinics in texas if you were an abortion doctor, you had to have an accreditation. also you had to have, the facilities had to be upgraded, and many critics -- charles: i'm not sure why that seems unreasonable, i really don't. we've seen some worse, some situations where they haven't been sanitary. all right, guys. hey, we're going to have more on this in just a few minutes. the judge is going to come back and help us understand that ruling. in the meantime, we want to go to politics. two national polls are out. first, from the wall street journal, hillary clinton leads donald trump in this one by five points, and then there's a poll from "the washington post" where she's opened up a 12-point lead. let's bring in katrina pierson, donald trump campaign spokesperson. all right, katrina, we saw what donald trump's response was particularly to the wall street

on the other side, the majority opinion was written by justice stephen breyer and it is .xtremely backocused it is very long, detailed. there is not a lot of good quotes and it because it does not sort of in they a super broad legal principle or really try to make a stand. tois all about, texas tried make this argument and we think that is incorrect for this particular reason. it came up at the trial court and we think they got it right. it is sort of narrowly written but it is so thorough that a lot of people think it might be pretty useful in trying to knock down similar laws in other states. host: for those three who opposed the decision, what were the kind of legal arguments that they put out? wrote austice alito really long dissent arguing the court should have, should not have taken this case and should have kicked it to a lower court. onre are several levels which those conservative justices are unhappy. they are unhappy with the outcome first and foremost and that fled into justice thomas said, we should just stop holding these regulations. the other conservative justices were