joining me now is nbc legal analyst lisa reuben, along with the president of naral pro choice america we are waiting for them right now, but i want to let you know we re following both of these two stories so we will have the speech that we know vice president kamala harris gave at this university in tennessee, that was happening while we were waiting to come on the air, and this ruling came down just a moment ago let me tell you a little bit about this judge in his writings, matthew kacsmaryk out of texas has described being transgender as a mental disorder. he s called homosexuality disordered he has had sexual revolutionaries have made the unborn child and marriage secondary tothe desires of liberated adults he sided with a christian father that anyone under the age of 18 in the state of texas needs approval by their parent before getting birth control. he is a university of texas law school graduate who has focused his attention on the legal foundations for aborgtion righ
republicans for their protests over guns. i want to be clear, the protest over asking for legislation to stop the massacre of children. two of them black were expelled yesterday by the republican super majority one lawmaker, gloria johnson, an older white woman, narrowly avoided expulsion. tonight, fears about the precedent this sets and the potential for a kind of revenge politics spreading to other states this is what happens when you lose democracy cries of anger and accusations after an extraordinary move by tennessee house republicans. expelled for so-called decorum violations it might have to do with the color of our skin. it looked like a jim crow era trial. if could happen in tennessee, it could happen anywhere. the first partisan expulsion in the state s modern history. it s a signal of authoritarianism. we will keep fighting it. it was nice to have somebody to fight with me for the first time i will keep fighting for you all- i won t stop forme
the reidout with joy reid is up next. we are following two major stories tonight on the right s minority rule attack on democracy. good evening welcome to the reidout. right now, vice president kamala harris is speaking in tennessee after meeting this afternoon with the tennessee three, and we re going to get to that in a moment but first, in just the last hour, we got breaking news out of texas a major ruling we have been waiting for. federal judge matthew kacsmaryk has officially put the fda s approval of mifepristone, the abortion pill, on hold he s given the federal government seven days to seek emergency relief this is the biggest blow to abortion access since the reversal of roe. the case affects access to the drug not just in texas but in every state in the united states all across the country