the disaster that would befall cancer patients and diabetics. why would companies spend billions of dollars developing a drug if a single judge with no medical experience whatsoever can with one stroke of a pen, take away their approval of that judge of the approval of that drug it would be outright mayhem. and i think this would be even too much for justices like brett kavanaugh and john roberts, who, despite their distaste for the administrative state don t want to completely handicap the f d. a it is a concerning president. indeed so if the courts take mifepristone off the market in the united states, doctors say they will be able to provide medication abortions using another drug called misoprostol, which is less effective and causes more cramping and bleeding and can lead to more complications. so essentially, this texas judge is trying to remove a safe and
perry was found guilty of murdering a man at a 2020 black lives matter protests and republican governor greg abbott has now ordered an expedited investigation into a potential pardon. the d. a who prosecuted the case calls the move deeply troubling. cnn s ed lavandera is reporting for us. guilty of the offensive murders. austin jury convicted daniel perry on friday for the murder of garrett foster. the army sergeant broke down after hearing the verdict. perry shot and killed foster during a black lives matter protest in the summer of 2020. after the trial, foster s family expressed their relief. we re happy with the verdict. we are very sorry for his family as well. just there s no winners in this. and just glad it s over. but this case is far from over the very next day. texas governor greg abbott tweeted his vow to pardon perry as quickly as possible and argued texas has
that those protests were kind of out of control and wild and wrong and should have been sort of put down in some way, and i don t think it s an accident that right now this kind of spark of this fight is around decor. um right. all of the kind of code we use for how should we conduct politics in this country? um and how there is a clash of generations in the thinking about that run. good real quick. i just think we can t lose sight of how fundamentally the red states and blue states are diverging. i mean, the red states really are in many ways building a nation within a nation. the general trend in american life from the sixties until around, 2020 was to nationalize more rights and reduce the ability of states to restrict those rights. everything from abortion and contraception to one person, one vote. the a d. a title nine. you know, the voting rights act and what we have seen since 2020 with the support of the majority on the supreme court. is states
conduct politics in this country and how there is a clash of generations in the thinking about that, ron? good real quick . i just think we can t lose sight of how fundamentally the red states and blue states are diverging. i mean, the red states really are in many ways, building a nation within a nation the general trend in american life from the sixties until around 2020 was to nationalize more rights and reduce the ability of states to restrict those rights. everything from abortion and contraception to one person. one vote the a d. a title nine. you know, the voting rights act and what we have seen since 2020 with the support of the majority on the supreme court. is states moving across a whole series of fronts. like i said, lgbtq rights free speech rights in the classroom, voting rights, abortion rights. to roll that back and set their own rules on civil rights and civil liberties . and this i think it s just a powerful symbol of the way in which the red states are departing from
correction happening. i think he talked about the use the word overcorrection. that s what s happening right now. where in some cities, particularly san francisco, the d. a was recalled because of the soft on crime stance. and so i think we re moving into a different direction. now mr thought, yeah, i mean, the d a. has been under scrutiny in san francisco specifically, but i do think it s such a complicated issue. it s hard to say. say. what the answer is in this particular case. we don t really know anything about this particular individual to make an assumption about whether or not there s a criminal history or anything like that, uh and there is a need to scrutinize the laws on the books and make changes and determine that balance between fairness and public safety, and it s not an easy process, and there s not just in one answer that we can all employ relative to the last 20 years. crime rates are still very low. they ve started to pick up and i think the pandemic we know that the