Century and replacing it with one from 160 years ago, the court has risked the health and lives of arizonians. Thats arizonas Attorney General slamming the ruling from her States Supreme Court upholding a civil warera ban on abortion. Well go through that stunning decision in just a moment. Well also bring you President Bidens response to the ruling as well as his new comments on donald trump and the threats to our nations democracy. And well bring you the latest from capitol hill. Speaker mike johnson is now delaying a key priority for farright republicans and facing new pressure to pass funding for ukraine. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, april 10th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Just two days after former President Donald Trump said that the states should decide their own laws regarding Abortion Health care, arizona has just given the nation a stark example of the consequences of leaving this issue up to the individual states.
the law makes performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. justices say they expect to hear oral arguments in the case in april and issue a ruling by the end ofjune. protests continued on friday in somalia s capital in response to a recent deal between nearby ethiopia and somaliland. the map grants ethiopia at 20 km, 12 miles, of access to somaliland s coast. somalia says the deal has no legal force and called it a violation of its national sovereignty. somaliland declared its independence from somalia in 1991 and has long sought international recognition. at the new deal with landlocked ethiopia risks undermining 2018 agreement it has with somalia and eritrea. that 2018joint declaration states that each country territorial integrity is to be respected in the
performed the procedure in emergency situations. the court granted emergency requests filed by idaho state officials, putting on hold a federaljudge ruling that pa rt part of the state from forcing concerns that have violated us law on emergency care. i s law makes performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. justices say they expect to hear oral arguments in the case in april and issue a ruling by the end ofjanuary. oscar pistorius has been freed on parole from a jail in south africa. it s nearly 11 years since pistorius murdered his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. she was shot multiple times by pistorius at his home, in a crime that gripped the world s attention. he claimed he mistook herfor a burglar. the former olympic champion was whisked away from prison in pretoria earlier, and is now thought to be staying at his uncle s house. mr pistorius must adhere to strict parole conditions for five years orface re imprisonment. reeva s mother, june steenkamp, sai
it does run the risk of alienating general election voters, but it shows up the enthusiasm for republicans. this is all about the party base. now, when they need to be careful about and certain, and other districts, because everything is so close in the house on the senate side, is that the enthusiasm gap, which is considerable right now, isn t that the democratic votes aren t surprised. i m hoping the democratic voters look at this and say, we do not want these people in power anymore, and it motivates them to get out and vote. but republicans, this is their bread and butter. they ve been doing this for decades because they know that it works, and a chance up their base. simone, you have states like tennessee, idaho, missouri, they re all looking into adopting similar bills like the one that was just passed in oklahoma, that would essentially make performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to ten years in prison. we know these all will be fought in court, undoubtedly. but how
bread and butter. they ve been doing this for decades because they know it works and it gins up their base. you have states like tennessee, idaho, missouri, they re looking to adopt similar bills like the one in oklahoma that would make performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to ten years in prison. we know these all will be fought in court undoubtedly. but how should democrats in these gop-run states run against these types of bills come the midterms? well, look, i think folks have to run races for their districts right in their states. and so in ohio, for example, there s going to be a governor s race. in michigan, where there is a democratic governor, but this is an issue, abortion has bubbled up and the governor has backed the bill in the state legislature to protect the rights, if you will, of roe v. wade. governors are going to be on the front lines. state legislator candidates,