this decision is a victory supporters of abortion rights, as it defends broad access to this pill and for the biden administration. president biden has responded: with me is our correspondent, jess parker. this ruling essentially keeps access to mifepristone as it was, open access to mifepristone. what happens now? it is a status quo ruling for now. as you say, access to mifepristone as it was remains, that means women can use it to ten weeks of pregnancy. a lower court ruling had looked at reducing that to seven and women will continue to be able to use medicines, three consultations get the drug order by mail. it is a drug thatis order by mail. it is a drug that is used by many women in the us and over half of abortions. it is seen as a very significant decision by the supreme court stopped but it is a temporary decision by the supreme court. picking it back to a lower court will now hear it over the coming months and it over the coming months and it could end up back with
trying to get fda approval when a single judge can just flip that around that would impact their desire to try to, you know, research and do get more life saving drugs on the market , and that would affect all of us, erica. so when we look at this 22 of the justice who just this is who dissented here. justice thomas and justice alito . justice alito actually actually said why? what did we hear from justice? alito? jessica yes. so interestingly, the two justices justice thomas justice alito. they re the only ones who dissented. but because of the way the order of structured here we don t know exactly how the other seven voted. only that five definitely did side with the fda. so justice alito wrote that four page dissent. he talked about really two things. he talked about how the supreme court has previously been criticized for these kinds of stays. he also tried to argue that there would be no harm if the restrictions went into effect, um, saying that, at present applicants ar
good evening pete leading a group of republican democratic members of congress meeting but the taiwanese president at the reagan library, speaker mc carthy said it is incumbent on the us to continue arming taiwan to strengthen economic cooperation and to promote what he called shared values with th self ruled island that they continue to threaten. between the people of taiwan is america matter up found important to the free world and it is critical to maintain economic freedom, peace, and regional stability. for her part the taiwanese president painted taiwan as one of the front lines of the ongoing battle between democrac and autocracy. we find ourselves in a world where democracy is and we need to keep the beacon of freedom shining and it canno be understated. the meeting with leaders speak your mccarthy was following in the footsteps of his predecessor, nancy pelosi, went even further utterly and figuratively by traveling to taiwan for her meeting but the react
anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. this is cnn. the world s news network. you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. abortion rights supporters are nervously anticipating what comes next after the supreme court moved to preserve access to a commonly used abortion drug . the ruling allows doctors to continue prescribing the stone and states that allow it, but there s almost no chance to protective ruling will be the final word. on regulation of the drug in the next challenge, the texas case that challenged medford per stones 23 year old fda approval, heads back to the fifth circuit court for an appeal on may 17th right now, we don t know why the court, which last year overturned the historic roe versus wade decision, moved to protect this drug justices offered no explanation with friday nights ruling. i spoke last hour with minnesota democratic senator tina smith about the ruling and what comes next. here s what she had to say. the supreme cou
soon because time is running out. congress is ready to get on the easter recess. they had gop priorities, too, into the administration, all sidelined because they re rallying again to the defense of donald trump who continues to exert influence over the party thank you, as always great to see you this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts now. after he was arrested, apparently today, donald trump has called for america to de-fund the police, ithe fbi, te department of justice, because the democrats have weaponized law enforcement. all right. who in this panel, who thinks that is a good idea? all right. nobody oh, man well, yeah. donald trump s vengeance messaging doesn t seem to be resonating with his base the former president continues to rage post that s a thing, on social media. despite a warning from the judge not to do so meanwhile, mike pence will have to testify before a federal g