evening, there s breaking news and a big victory for the biden administration, the fda and the maker but widely used abortion medication that s been taken by millions of women from more than two decades. mifepristone about an hour ago, we learned that a majority of justices on the supreme court decided in effect that the pill will remain legal no restrictions on its usage while an appeal of a lower lower court ruling moves forward that ruling by a federal judge in texas, known as an opponent of abortion, put a hold on the federal approval of the pill by the fda in 2000. and raised questions about the scientific evidence provided by the fda supporting its safety. the fifth circuit court of appeals, then froze parts of that texas judge s ruling but still left significant restrictions on this distribution prohibited pills sent by mail narrowed the window of its availability and blocked healthcare providers who are not doctors from prescribing the pills. this new ruling by the su
questions about the scientific evidence provided by the fda supporting its safety. the fifth circuit court of appeals, then froze parts of that texas judge s ruling but still left significant restrictions on this distribution. it prohibited pills sent by mail narrowed the window of its availability and blocked healthcare providers who are not doctors from prescribing the pills. this new ruling by the supreme court, requested by the vitamin ist rations removes all restrictions while the continues. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now with more so the justices had until midnight. the ruling didn t come down until well into the evening. do we know why well, we ve been waiting for this a week. anderson after that initial kind of extension on wednesday as well, and it s likely that justice alito, who is the one who wrote he needed time to maybe write this four page dissent, and it s possible even that during their conference this morning, maybe the justices wer
thrown the issue back on the table in the way that you may recall the supreme court decisions in the past. things like, for instance, over rafael in the gay marriage ruling that took a political hot button off the table. suddenly republicans weren t getting asked about that all the time by overturning roe versus wade has put it back on the table, and i think the pro life movement and republicans have been really flat footed and being able to respond to this new political reality. that s why you re seeing them not come out and make statements quite as much. kirsten i mean, how concerned should abortion rights advocates be about what s going to happen in the fifth circuit and possibly back the supreme court? i think very concerned because i think what this is showing is exactly how radical that people are who oppose abortion rights? because this is a situation where where did these judges get off? overturning the fda? this is it s insane, right? like in any normal world. we would recogni
these presidential nominating conventions, so we ve got a long way to go for this to be resolved. i think right now, what republicans have been grappling with is the fact that you did have at least in a number of cases, an argument for pro life advocates to make pre overturning of roe versus wade around sort of moderate restrictions, things. is like that there were places where the pro life movement had some opportunities to make an argument to try to build a majority coalition but getting rid of roe versus wade. it has thrown the issue back on the table in the way that you may recall the supreme court decisions in the past things like, for instance, obergefell in the gay marriage ruling that took a political hot button off the table. suddenly, republicans weren t getting asked about that all the time by overturning roe versus wade has put it back on the table, and i think the pro life movement and republicans have been really flat footed and being able to respond to this new political
he might win anyway. talk to me about that. roy moore is a unique candidate in this state. you know, he has almost a cult-like following here. he has he has developed this over years and years of kind of going against any establishment that has challenged him, including the republican party and republican voters, you know, and he has developed this over and over and over again through these acts of putting the ten commandments, in defying the supreme court on the gay marriage ruling, ultimately to this. he is going to continue to stand his ground. that group of base voters there have sorted him and the money and donations have flowed into his non-profit for years off of this. so he carries those people with him to the ballot box every single time, which means he can count on a certain percentage. it s a low percentage, which works for him in race like this, where turnout in this runoff against lawsuiter strange, which was a well publicized runoff was around 13 or 14% in the state.