This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York.

Today on the program, the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade.

What are the legal and political implications of this ruling?

And when it comes to abortion access, is America exceptional?

We will look at reproductive rights, all that with two top journalists.

Then President Biden is in Germany today for the meeting of the G7.

Will the world's advanced economies ramp up pressure on Russia? Will it work?

And Israel's government collapses. What does that mean for the country, the region, and for BB Netanyahu?

Richard Haas and Gideon Rackman, Wayne.

Finally, a seismic shift in French politics, President Macron's centrist party loses its parliamentary majority.

Both the far right and left make electoral gains. Why is this happening? And just who are these voters embracing the extremes?

But first, here's my take. American democracy has been under stress for some time now.

Trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. And when we say this, we usually mean Congress and the presidency.

But the Supreme Court's decision on Roe v Wade has brought the public's confidence in the court to an all-time low.

And puts it in the same category as the others, defined by partisanship and polarization.

The court's decisions this week are not conservative. They are radical.

One of the time-honored conservative doctrines has been a respect for precedent, starry decisis.

And yet in two days, the court swept aside a right that for half a century American jurisprudence had held was a constitutional right.

And it also uprooted a New York law regulating guns that was 111 years old and had never before been found in conflict with the Constitution.

Many of the justices were asked in their nomination hearings about Roe v Wade and starry decisis.

And they answered in a way that any plain observer would describe as declaring that the precedent of Roe and many rulings of firmly get should be respected.

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