joining me now is nbc legal analyst lisa reuben, along with the president of naral pro choice america we are waiting for them right now, but i want to let you know we re following both of these two stories so we will have the speech that we know vice president kamala harris gave at this university in tennessee, that was happening while we were waiting to come on the air, and this ruling came down just a moment ago let me tell you a little bit about this judge in his writings, matthew kacsmaryk out of texas has described being transgender as a mental disorder. he s called homosexuality disordered he has had sexual revolutionaries have made the unborn child and marriage secondary tothe desires of liberated adults he sided with a christian father that anyone under the age of 18 in the state of texas needs approval by their parent before getting birth control. he is a university of texas law school graduate who has focused his attention on the legal foundations for aborgtion righ
Appealing to right wing tyrannical white supremacist ideology to justify and legitimate and indeed to validate their attempts to undermine democracy. joy, what you just laid out, this is anti-democratic. not big d, small d. this is the ostensible umbrella that protects us all and they re trying to yank it away from those two black men, and what they have done is allowed the ring to fall down and to expose the things they re doing. the behind the scenes shenanigans, the strategies to rejigger the economy so that they can justify and legitimate the assault upon african american and poor white people eventually, it ends up backfiring because if those rudders are removed, the ship of state will be in chaos as we see now, the attention of the nation will be trained upon what s going on here in nashville. before, they were doing it in secret if you keep it quiet, if you
Right now for the people making decisions about what they need to do in this moment, they re still able to get access to care but for this to happen in this week, the same week when voters went to the ballot in wisconsin and demonstrated how much they cared about making their own decisions for themselves, for this judge to come down and make it clear that no respect for our ability to make decisions about our own bodies is incredibly telling. this is a clear crisis, not only for democracy but for freedom. well, i mean, i think those who have read the handmaid s tale or watched the series understand it was a right wing christian religious cult essentially that took over the united states and stripped women of all of their rights, leaving them with only choices to be a handmaid essentially forced birth incubator or be a prostitute or a maid which it sounds pretty spot-on with what a lot of folks in the country think are the only
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Doing. the people called them into existence, put them in office, and now they re trying to use rules to block them. and here s the most fascinating thing about the republicans. they never seem to learn if you give black folk the stuff they ask for in the first place, the changes won t be as radical as if you resist them and then force the hands not only of african american people but their allies to show just how ridiculous it is for you to stonewall and blockade against democracy. for instance, in the boycott in 1955 and 56 in montgomery, all they wanted was, hey, when the white folk are not there, let s take their seats and let us sit down no, we don t want anything you pushed it so far that they changed the entire law, and it allowed the the supreme court ruled that segregation on transportation was wrong again, they have overplayed their hand these young men yesterday before