politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us today an abortion case with implications everywhere. a texas trump-appointed judge will determine if pregnancy pills should be pull ed off the shelf from coast to coast. plus more economic turbulence as american markets tumble on fears a global bank mugt go over the edge. and wrong, disturbed, the chamberlain approach. washington say the florida governor is way off target to suggest the united states should forget about ukraine. up first this hour, a texas classroom that may echo in w women s lives no matter where you live. the case, the alliance of hippocratic medicine versus is the fda. the plaintiffs are five out of state antiabortion groups. the argument that the fda put it ahead of science two decades ago ignoring evidence and safety rules when to go on the market. it s one of two drugs used to terminate pregnancies. it s as important or important than the specific legal arguments. today s h
motivating younger voters. so this is something politically is a good issue for them down the road. the vice president is beginning to iowa on thursday to put some democratic ideas in the air. there s been a lot of republicans there. rd, donald trump, so she s going to balance some things. this has been front and center for her. and we should point out there are majority of americans in both party who is support the idea this medication so it s not certainly divided on partisan lines. this is a judge shopping without question. and this is one of the fallouts why elections matter and the trump judges are still very much important. so democrats will use this. the timing, this case playing out as we get rs closer and closer to the 2024 cycle.
federal districts in this country. you can see the problem with one of those judges in one of those districts blocking something for the entire country. this is something that never used to happen. it started happening more during the obama administration when conservative judges starting blocking administrative actions. it happened during the trump administration in the opt sut circumstances. now it s happening again. the courts don t know how to deal with this problem, john. this judge s past does not guarantee what he will decide in the case. but the reason a lot of people are watching closely, national significance, but it s because of the judge. he was confirmed to the federal bench in 2019, appointed by trump. he was a former attorney for a law firm that worked with antiabortion groups. he has issued a number of r rulings contrary to the biden administration s positions,
the judge is being asked to block the fda approval of this abortion drug. and the plaintiffs have not been able to point to a case. that is why this case is so unprecedented and so important because the plaintiffs can t point to another instance in which a judge has ordered the fda to remove another drug from the shelf. the plaintiffs have been able to do is point to other instances in which the fda has us isuspen approvals on its own the fda doing it on its own. that s what they are using to argue here. but the big stakes that we re talking about here are unprecedented. because the plaintiffs are asking a judge to do the scientist s job, they have protocalls and procedures to
so the law evolves, but in your view looking a the precedent, is there a case or you mentioned the job shopping case, is is this an idea where you go to this judge and then the court of appeals, let s say the judge issued a decision that the fda didn t like. it goes to the circuit court of appeals and then would go to the supreme court. is that the path you see here? it is. the deck is stacked for the plaintiffs here. they haves chosen wise ly, it we re looking at this strategically. they know they are going to get this judge, who may welsh a nationwide injunction. the next step for the defendants and the government is to go up to the court of awe peels. this is the fifth circuit court. this is the most conservative court of awe peels in the country. then the next step is the u.s. supreme court that can t force them to take the case, but it s up to the supreme court. there s a 6 to 3 conservative majority in this courts as well. this is the same court that