ARE NOT FREE SPEECH.
NEIL?
>> Neil: THANKS VERY MUCH FOR
THAT.
TO JOE LIEBERMAN RIGHT NOW.
YOU HOPE COOLER CALMER HEADS
PREVAIL, SENATOR. THAT’S THE BIG WORRY, THIS IS A
THAT’S THE BIG WORRY, THIS IS A
VERY POLARIZING ISSUE AND
EMOTIONS RUN EXTREME ON BOTH
SIDES.
WHAT DO YOU TELL PEOPLE?
>> THE FIRST THING, THIS IS AN
ENORMOUSLY SIGNIFICANT DECISION.
IT’S ONE OF THE BIG DAYS IN
SUPREME COURT HISTORY.
JUSTICE ALITO HIMSELF COMPARED
IT AND DEPENDING THE OVERTURNING
OF A PREVIOUS DECISION TO THE
BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION
DECISION WHICH OVERTURNED PLESSI
VERSUS FERGUSON ON THE IDEA OF
SEPARATE BUT EQUAL.
I APPRECIATE WHAT PRESIDENT
BIDEN SAID.
HE’S OBVIOUSLY AGAINST THE
DECISION.
HE’S DISAPPOINTED BY IT.
HE’S THE PRESIDENT AND HE
SETTING THE TONE.
HE THANKED THE PEOPLE THAT AGREE
WITH HIM THAT THE DECISION WAS
WRONG.
YOU HAVE TO KEEP IT PEACEFUL.
THAT’S THE WAY WE ARE.
WE ACCEPT THE JUDGING OF THE
COURTS EVEN IF WE DISAGREE WITH
THEM.
I WOULD ADD THIS NOTE.
IF YOU DIDN’T AGREE WITH THIS
DECISION BUT ALSO HORRIFIED BY
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE U.S.
CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6th BECAUSE
OF AN ATTEMPT TO VIOLENTLY
INTERRUPT THE CONSTITUTIONAL
ORDER OF COUNTING ELECTORAL
VOTES, YOU CAN’T TOLERATE
VIOLENCE IN RESPONSE TO A
SUPREME COURT DECISION.
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE
COURT, GO BACK TO THE
LEGISLATURES AS THE PRESIDENT
SAID.
YOU HAVE TO GET INVOLVED IN THE
ELECTIONS THIS FALL AND IN 2024.
>> Neil: BUT HE DIDN’T SAY THAT.
I DO APPRECIATE WHAT YOU’RE
SAYING, SENATOR, ABOUT HIS,
PRESSING DISAPPOINTMENT WITH
THIS DECISION AND URGING
EVERYONE TO KEEP CALM.
HE WENT BEYOND THAT HE
QUESTIONED THE MOTIVES BEHIND IT
AND THE WAY AND THE APPROVAL OF
THE THREE CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES
MORE OR LESS INPINKING THE COURT
AND THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE TO
RALLY AROUND WHETHER WE ALWAYS
AGREE WITH THE DECISION THE
COURT MAKES OR NOT.
DOESN’T THAT FURTHER INCITE
ANGER THAT SOMEONE HEARS THAT,
YOU KNOW, THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT
ABOUT THIS.
THIS IS A KANGAROO COURT AND IT
WAS TRUMP THAT PUT IN THERE AND
IT WAS RIGGED FROM THE
BEGINNING.
IT FEEDS A BEASTLY BEHAVIOR,
DOESN’T IT?
>> I DON’T THINK SO, NEIL.
THE PRESIDENT IS DISAPPOINTED BY
THIS DECISION.
HE’S GOT A RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH,
IF YOU WILL, TO SAY SO.
IF YOU READ THE DECISIONS OF
JUSTICE ALITO AND JUSTICE THOMAS
AND THE THREE DISSENTING
JUSTICES, THEY SAY SOME PRETTY
TOUGH THINGS ABOUT EACH OTHER
AND THE OPINIONS EACH SIDE
ARTICULATE.
THAT’S PART OF OUR SYSTEM.
AGAIN, WHEN THE SUPREME COURT
THE SIDES THAT IS THE LAW OF THE
LAND, YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER
PRESIDENT BIDEN CALLING FOR A
PEACEFUL PROTEST, NO
INTIMIDATION.
BUT THE FACT THAT HE’S ARRESTED
PEOPLE THAT ARE UPSET WITH THIS
DECISION THROUGH THE ELECTIONS
PROCESS.
THIS ISN’T OVER.
THE COURT TODAY RULED THE
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN
ABORTION.
BUT IT DID NOT I DON’T THINK SAY
THAT CONGRESS HAS NO ROLE HERE.
I THINK YOU’LL FIND PEOPLE IN
CONGRESS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
HOW TO AGAIN ASSESS A NATIONAL
STANDARD FOR ABORTION.
WHETHER THEY CAN DO IT OR NOT
DEPEND ON THE ELECTION IN
NOVEMBER.
CONGRESS IS AS CLOSELY DIVIDED
NOW OR AS REPUBLICANS CONTROL
BOTH HOUSES OR ONE, IT’S NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN.
SO THE ACTIVITY WILL GO BACK TO
THE STATES.
THAT’S NOT SUCH A BAD THING
OVERALL.
>> Neil: ALL RIGHT.
AGAIN, COMMENTING ON THAT
DECISION AND THE IMPLICATIONS
ARE ONE THING.
MORE OR LESS QUESTIONING THE
INSTITUTION THAT CREATED IT.
ON THIS ONE, WE MIGHT NOT BE
SEEING EYE TO EYE BUT ALWAYS
GOOD SEEING YOU.