On August 29, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responded to President Biden's October 2022 call for a federal review of marijuana scheduling: The drug should be reclassified as a Schedule 3 controlled substance.
them, saying ther they are mouth pieces of elon musk. arrogance and vanity and refusal to address the possibility that there could be an alternative view to theirs, could have some validity, is incredibly powerful among these people. john: and suppression of information always dangerous for democracy, i think this has a lot of legs and maybe as they did with the hunter biden laptop a couple years from now, see the mainstream organizations report on the story. gerry, thank you. sandra: new york joining a growing list of states taking on tiktok. assembly mulling a bill that would ban state employees from downloading the app on to their government-issued devices. a dozen other states have already taken similar measures over fears of spying by the chinese government. david lee miller is on it for us. when might this proposed law take effect? probably won t happen until
becomes more dire and concerned leading up to january 6th. allie raffa, thank you for giving us the latest on that development in washington, d.c. that s the latest on that, but i want to know, could these revelations help build the case against donald trump? coming up, i m going to ask msnbc legal analyst joyce advance and molly john fast from the atlantic. next to florida where the republican war on abortion is in full effect. governor ron desantis signing a bill that bans abortions within 15 weeks without exception for rape, insist or human trafficking. joining us now more on this is nbc news correspondent stephanie stanton. stephanie, thanks for joining us this morning. when does this new law take effect and who is going to be the most impacted by it? reporter: good morning,
when do you think it s appropriate for the supreme court to grant emergency relief, use this docket? when are the circumstances that warrant this? and i think you know these decisions have a profound effect on people s lives so i ll just use one example. last fall, in a one-paragraph decision, a majority of the court refused to stop the enforcement of a texas law that severely restricts a woman s access to abortion, and that case, even chief justice roberts objected to the court s decision to let the law take effect, calling the statutory scheme not only unusual but unprecedented. as someone who believes in transparency, could you talk in general about when you think this shadow docket should be used, when emergency relief should be given, and how, if it s overused, it could undermine public confidence in the court? thank you, senator.
months ago to the day and the supreme court said let the texas law take effect. here they said we ll let the main law take effect, but these are not what are called decisions on the merit. supreme court hasn t totally blessed it. that s something they decide later after the case is fully ventilated and briefed. well, to the case you just mentioned, the u.s. supreme court. today is expected to take up two challenges to the most restrictive abortion regulation in the country. the texas law that has virtually ended abortions in the state. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has the latest. the court is considering what s to become of two lawsuits challenging sb-8, the texas law that stopped nearly all abortions in the state. the law says they can t be performed after six weeks of pregnancy before most women know they re pregnant. it is meant to intimidate, to threaten, to make us afraid of providing the abortion care that