get paid in himalayan dollars and then i said pay me in rugs which turned out not to be a bad idea they re a good investment. you know what i say in this job sometimes you get little moments of levity. when somebody told me on my staff steve bannon had been apprehended by postal inspectors on a yacht in connecticut this is one of the good stories. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour in december it was about parental rights. a federal judge in texas ruled that a grant program designed to provide birth control to kids from low income families was unconstitutional because that program violated parental rights the judge wrote the court finds no compelling governmental interest justifies defend s disregard of plaintiffs parental rights in this case. in november it was about the discrimination on the basis of sex. that same federal judge cited with lawyers steven miller the judge decided obamacare and title 9 ruling against discrimination on the basis of sex did no
daniels, the adult film star trump allegedly paid hush money to prior to the 2016 election in order to cover up an alleged affair you heard michael cohen there say his role for the time being is over, which could be an indication the manhattan d.a. is wrapping up the grand jury portion of the investigation if that is, indeed, the case it means prosecutors could soon make a decision about whether or not to bring criminal charges against a former president of the united states for the first time ever. that in and of itself would, of course, be historic. but this is the trump era, and history making offenses like say impeachments or a special counsel investigation, those often come at two for the price of one, which why we re also watching prosecutors who may be close to a decision of their own on whether or not to indict the former president for his scheme in trying to overturn georgia s election results
included they should not do you believe they do? senator, in working in the private government and non-profit sector i can t recall an instance where i observed a judge imposing their religion, but i will say for the record that it is inappropriate for an article iii judge to do so that was the response given by the man who in the coming days will decide a case that could up end access in one of the drugs in medication abortions nationwide they brought a case against the fda in november to challenge the agency s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, an approval that came two decades ago. it s a group founded in the 90s by conservative christian lawyers. it has a history failed lawsuits targeting transgender student
has ordinarily been the conservative party line for physicians, third standing positions to make these claims because the patients and doctors are misalign here, which is not usually the case there s a lot here why is this case in judge kazmierczak s chambers along with these other hot buttoned issues because he s the only judge in this amarillo, texas. you re guaranteed to get judge kazmierczak and when you re guaranteed you think you know exactly what you re going to get. jessica, i didn t realize this attempt to kind of unwind access to mifepristone has been going on for decades when it was first approved it was controversial, but pro-life the anti-abortion movement has been after the fda approval for almost 20 years now. is that right? oh, yeah, they ve been after it forever because they know
supreme court, oh, they can t possibly allow this. but it was a sign i think of all bets are off, that these people have been put into these various courts to do the bidding of the far right, and that s what they re going to do. and the legal arguments are almost irrelevant. and, you know, if they re irrelevant for abortion, i wouldn t be surprised if they were irrelevant if they try to bring up a case against plan b i think it s also interesting to note that they have been one of the anti-abortion sides arguments in this case before kazmierczak is about the com stock laws, you know, those old laws that were used to ban the mailing of contraception, the mailing of birth control information. they basically want to was rect the laws and say they apply here and there s a lot more there s many things besides abortion pills the com stock