good evening, everyone. great to have you with us. i m erica hill in tonight for alison camerata. welcome to cnn. tonight we have much more. on the biggest story of this night. the supreme court, of course, protecting access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower court rulings that restricted its usage. big victory for the biden administration. it is far from the end, though the ruling means the appeals process now will play out and it is almost guaranteed the case. will eventually land back before the justices. in the meantime, though, the fda approval of medford cristante stands as does current access plus turmoil in the nfl tonight, three players suspended indefinitely to others slapped with a six game ban. so what they do is the punishment fair. and it wouldn t be a friday night here without a news quiz. see, if you know more about what happened this week. they are distinguished panelists. here is my panel tonight. defense attorney mr maris. john avlon, our seni
trying to get fda approval when a single judge can just flip that around that would impact their desire to try to, you know, research and do get more life saving drugs on the market , and that would affect all of us, erica. so when we look at this 22 of the justice who just this is who dissented here. justice thomas and justice alito . justice alito actually actually said why? what did we hear from justice? alito? jessica yes. so interestingly, the two justices justice thomas justice alito. they re the only ones who dissented. but because of the way the order of structured here we don t know exactly how the other seven voted. only that five definitely did side with the fda. so justice alito wrote that four page dissent. he talked about really two things. he talked about how the supreme court has previously been criticized for these kinds of stays. he also tried to argue that there would be no harm if the restrictions went into effect, um, saying that, at present applicants ar
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
huber ahead on cnn newsroom a temporary victory for abortion rights supporters as the u. s. supreme court says mifepristone can still be prescribed. for now we ll take a look at the legal and medical fallout from this decision, plus a tentative ceasefire maybe holding in sudan , while the u. s state department has a message for americans hoping to get out of the country. and later, but the kremlin is saying about the bomb dropped on the russian city of belgorod. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. in a move that s being celebrated as a victory for the biden administration and abortion rights supporters across the u. s supreme court has taken steps to protect access to mifepristone and abortion medication that s been commonly used by women for decades are jessica schneider has more on the ruling and what comes next in the fight over the drug? the supreme court, stepping in to protect full access to the abortion pill mifepristone while the appeals proce
it earth day a day to focus on the health of our planet. there are alarming warning signs linked to climate change. for cnn center. piss is cnn newsroom with leila harrack. in a move that s being celebrated as a victory for the biden administration and abortion rights supporters across the u. s. supreme court has taken steps to protect access to stone and abortion medication that s been commonly used by women for decades. our discussion, i d er has more now on the ruling and what comes next in the fight. over the drug. the supreme court , stepping in to protect full access to the abortion pill mifepristone while the appeals process plays out below, that means it will be status quo for the administration of this drug . women can continue to take it up to 10 weeks pregnant, they can continue to receive it by mail and via telehealth visits with their health care providers , and the generic version will remain widely available. so this is exactly what the biden administration the