constitutional right t abortion was eliminated in thi country nearly a year ago. a federal judge in texas las night issued a sweeping ruling to reverse the food and s 23 year old approval of a key abortion drug, the rulin orders the fda to hold thi medication from pharmacy shelves in every state regardless of whether or not abortion is legal in tha state. u.s. district judge matthew ha put a seven-day hold on hi willing to give the government the opportunity to repeal it the justice department did fil a notice of appeal last night. let me tell you what is at stake here the drug in question is one of a standard two drug regiment commonly prescribed by doctors for medication abortion across the country. medication abortions account for more than half of al abortions in the united states according to the good doctor institute. and this was approved by the fda in 2000 is one the mos heavily studied and scrutinize drugs on the market. studies show that it is safe than penicillin,
it was a combination of ange over the gerrymandering an 2018, the republicans after 20 version, the democrat won th attorney generals office, they strip those offices of some of the powers these were very anti democrati lower case the efforts tha have pushed people and motivated them here was an opportunity, the first in a long time as you say, 15 years, even longer. in 2008, it wasn t really liberal controlled court, it was centrist it was the first opportunity t get the voter i.d. law all of these things were essential, they were a playe in the transformation of wisconsin. i think people felt on tha side, on the progressive side, a rare opportunity to kind o look at the structural changes that have really been supe imposed on the state, largel from powerful conservative think tanks and donors, much o which came from out of state
that were literally endangerin the lives of both patients who need abortions for any reaso and patients to doctors woul have relied upon this drug t help manage their miscarriages , but there is a plot twist, within an hour of his ruling out of texas came anothe ruling, this time for th federal judge in washingto state. a group of democratic people had filed a suit to force th fda to make the same abortio drug, mifepristone, more accessible and to block th government from taking any action that would restrict access to that drug. the judge in that case, and bomb appointee thomas rice partially granted th plaintiffs request he did not agree to make the drug more accessible, but hi ruling does barr the fda fro doing anything that would make it less available in the state that brought the lawsuit states where abortion remain legal. so now the fda is looking at two directly contradictory orders, both from federa judges which means that one wa
transformative this ruling i and the need to pause it t grant that stay, i expect we will be in front the supreme court sooner than we know it ali. let s assume that to be the case michelle, let s take the supreme court, there are a lot of people in this audience and in this country who would say, this is doomed, if it goes t the supreme court we know ho that s going to go except there are specifics about this case that are a little bit perverse. the judge s comments in a lo of cases that far exceed wha the faintest were even saying. the issues of standing, th comments he makes about wome and their inability to represent themselves in a case if you had an abortion, yo have to musculature partly think straight the fact that there is a competing decision by anothe federal judge. it - is a less obvious that it migh be the supreme court, they may have an issue with this really but one would hope so excep that what we understand from the dobbs decision, from the lobby decision is that t
daniels with whom he allegedly had an affair. trump continues to deny thos allegations. he is resort to making dozen of social media posts, criticizing man district attorney alvin bragg the judge assigned the case an even their family members wh have nothing at all to do with the prosecution. trump s efforts to silence and intimidate people and entities he considered to be his enemie is entirely consistent with wh he is and who he is always been his attempts to undermine th integrity of the institution that are supposed to uphold th values of the justice an democracies are straight out o the strongman playbook the same week as trump s historic arraignment, there wa a rare and extraordinary mov by tennessee republicans tha show to how those tactics have been adopted by the gop at large. on march 30th, three days afte a school shooting in nashville left six people dead, includin three children, democratic state representative glori johnson, justin jones, and justin pearson took to the po