drug it is also asking the appeal court to stop that decisio from taking effect until the appeals process played out as of now, the ruling is set t take effect on friday. the case is widely expected to work its way to the suprem court. so, let s find out what it means now. i want to bring in my dear friends katie benner, pulitzer prize-winning justic department reporter for the ne york times and professor melissa murray o nyu law school melissa, break this down for us what is the doj asking for i today s appeal what do we need to know? they re asking for th intermediate appellate court that judge kacsmaryk directl is right under, they re asking the appeals court to essentially stay judge kacsmaryk ruling so doesn t go into effect, so this can basically allow their appeal process to review all of the agency indications and all o their studies to make sure tha they can comply with thi process.
you know, he could still pull the plug and not do it this is his moment if he s going to do it history in recent years has not been kind to people who waited for a later moment he s certainly losing out from the rallying effect for trump, around the arraignment and the indictment in new york, and the problem for desantis is that effect is real, and continues. look, trump will be under indictment, and investigation for the rest of the campaign for sure! and so if a sufficient number of voters on the right, that s going to be hard sliding. well, nick just mentioned something kind of interesting and sly. what do you think the chances are desantis decides not to run? oh, i don t think he can decide at this point not to run. he s effectively already in the race this really is his moment. yes, he s a young guy, but if he, you know, he s positioned himself really as a fighter, and if he bows out of this
essentially asking the fifth circuit court of appeals to do here is to press pause on everything, to give everyone a chance to have their legal say in court, allow the parties to file in the fifth circuit there, and so it would essentially get rid of that seven-day deadline that we saw in the texas decision from friday you ll remember that decision essentially casting doubt on what would be the future of this drug mifepristone that has been widely used, on the market for 23 years the judge in that case on friday put a hold on the drug s effective date, and it was an interesting move because it s not exactly what the plaintiffs had wanted they wanted him to pull it off the market nationwide, instead, he put a hold on the effective date he said i m going to give the justice department seven days to appeal the case before my order goes into effect, knowing of course that his order would be controversial. the justice department then indicated that it was going to appeal and we have now see
unprecedented and exthe record narks exthe rraordinary telling the fifth circuit, please put the order on hold so it doesn t go into effect on friday. if this eventually ends up before the supreme court, people might assume the vote would be along the same lines as dobbs, meaning conservatives would side with a ban on abortion is it that clear cut in your mind it s really not that clear cut, and partly because in dobbs, the supreme court was essentially kicking it back to the states, saying abortion shouldn t be decided they don t think it was a constitutional right to begin with the conservative justices are kicking it back to the states, with this texas order, there s obviously some debate about exactly what it would mean if it was to go into effect. by all accounts, it would upend the status quo as we know it, and so there s some question about whether this is really the right vehicle. if the supreme court wants to go a step further than just
wrapped up in this conspiracy theory and that was hard for her. online, anti-vaxxers and the movement are using you as their poster girl. it s hard to think that you are being used to deter somebody from getting the vaccine and that was really hard for me to cope with are you saying you blamed yourself yes, absolutely i would have people say how many people did not receive the vaccine because of you it s crazy when you go in to sa save lives and something like that happens. just hearing the harassment, the effect it has on her family, right. so what s been the reception to her coming out again, post online again people are really excited we ve had an information vacuum about this story, and tiffany dover has been used as a canary in the coal mine to sell you all of these stories about people who have died suddenly or injured from the vaccine that haven t proven to be true.