can excite his base and solidify this idea that republicans stand with white people against immigrants and the democrats are for people who aren t from here. i mean, that seems to be the calculation, particularly, around the political timing of their performtively cruel policy announcements. and i don t know if vice president pence shares president trump s instincts and inclinations on this as a great wedge issue, as a great way to, you know, troll the dems and make them mad and make them, thereby, may into your own political strategy, but that will be vice president pence s task here in miami tomorrow and it comes at a time we then the human costs of this political strategy in the trump era are becoming quite impossible to ignore because whatever the political calculation around this as a as a, you know, horror movie that is designed
the 46 years that we ve had roe, we haven t had a state go completely dark in terms of access to abortion. we haven t had a state lose every provider. is there some sort of federal failsafe from the federal courts that kicks in that has prevented that from happening in the past that might kick in here in missouri or in kentucky or any of these other states that are down to their last clinic and under pressure? the federal courts have protected the last clinic from closing in kentucky, in mississippi, for example, so there is the federal constitutional protection that says that states may not ban abortion, whether it s outright or in the de facto way. but the trump administration and president trump has vowed to appoint supreme court justices that would overturn roe v. wade, so the anti-abortion movement is banking on and they re emboldened by that promise. and they are trying to get cases to the supreme court that will either undermine roe v. wade or eviscerate it entirely. what we