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this is how it looked in 2021 when south carolina s republican governor henry mcmaster sent a 6-week abortion law into law the first time. he signed that bill blocking abortions before many people even know they re pregnant. less than an hour after the statehouse sent it to his desk, hundreds of people packed the statehouse in the middle of the pandemic to watch. the ink barely dry before planned parenthood got a federal judge to block the law temporarily. and just this past january the state supreme court agreed the only woman on the south carolina supreme court cast the deciding vote and wrote the opinion striking down that six-week abortion ban as unconstitutional. that is how it went down the first time. south carolina republicans tried to enact a six-week abortion ban and failed. but today it worked. this time governor mcmaster
according to two people familiar with the he is not intending to invoke his fifth amendment right rights underscoring that he is not the target of the special counsel s scrutiny. devin corcoran s expected grand rivers tomorrow comes after a fast-track ultrafast track peels court ruling earlier this week, tonight requests from donald trump to block evan corcoran from effectively becoming a witness in the grand jury. the times has new details tonight about the initial ruling from judge barrel howell, it shot down coming corcoran s attorney client privilege protections. times reports most notably, in a lengthy memorandum of law didn t accompany the ruling, judge howell, according to two people briefed on the matter, laid out damning assertions made by prosecutors, mr. trump knowingly deceived the government, and caused mr. corcoran to mistake to prosecutors where the documents were being held in mar-a-lago. last summer we ll be national archives the fbi were tending to read the documents.
times reports tonight that according to two people familiar with the he is not intending to invoke his fifth amendment right rights underscoring that he is not the target of the special counsel s scrutiny. devin corcoran s expected grand rivers tomorrow comes after a fast-track ultrafast track peels court ruling earlier this week, tonight requests from donald trump to block evan corcoran from effectively becoming a witness in the grand jury. the times has new details tonight about the initial ruling from judge barrel howell, it shot down coming corcoran s attorney client privilege protections. times reports most notably, in a lengthy memorandum of law didn t accompany the ruling, judge howell, according to two people briefed on the matter, laid out damning assertions made by prosecutors, mr. trump knowingly deceived the government, and caused mr. corcoran to mistake to
trying to say that people around him should not be answering questions about his direct communications with him in this situation, it would be a claim of presidential confidentiality or executive privilege, and we do know that there are several different people who were top aides around him, even a cabinet member at the time around january 6th where he was trying to block them answering questions and the federal judge barrel howell, who was the chief judge of this court until last week, one of her last rulings was striking this down, just deciding that no, he wasn t going to be able to make these sorts of claims and block people from answering additional questions about those direct type of conversations, people like mark meadows, his chief of staff in the white house. john ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, the national security advisor at the time. robert o brien, ken cuccinelli, a cabinet member. homeland security officials, the secretary and then to top aides,