happening now in, iowa it is the first official title cal for the gop of the 202 presidential iowa caucus cycle will voters be interested in casting about for anyone but former president, donald trump wrong place at the wrong time. shootings targeting innocent people this week i has americans, asking what i happening? the simple rights attorney speaks on how stand-your-groun laws and possible hate crime charges factor into all of these tragedies coming up. violent overseas, the fighting incident is only intensifying, putting the safety of american at risk, what we know and ho many americans we are talkin about. coming up on the next, our standing up for transgender. rights and montana state representative is doin everything she can do to protect that liberty the gop-controlled legislature want to censor her, but we won t what she s saying and why this fight is getting personal. supreme court s major decision to temporarily ends lega battle over access the mos commonly used
on the city of new york city t have this ex president come in and he got rebuked by the judg presiding in this case sayin we ll, if trump can go to ne hampshire, if he can show up a public events that he ca definitely come to a courtroom and defend himself at trial, and so i don t think that went well, it doesn t look great in front of a jury he, go thank, you hugo loyall of the guardian political investigator reporter, thank. you that does it for us on, this edition of alex, report i m richard in for alex toda and i ll see you at 1 pm eastern tomorrow my friend yasmin segui continues our coverage hi, everybody good to see good afternoon i m yasmin vossoughian a rare legal victory for abortion, right supreme cour allowing mifepristone to sta on the market for now. up but the battle is far fro over, we re going to dive into what all of this means and wha is next, over the next few hours.
several blue states as well as quote we just talked about looking to stockpile mifepristone along wit misoprostol, which i essentially the second pil that you take along with mifepristone for the medical abortions. what are groups like yours doing to prepare for the possibility in which mifepristone is taken off th mark it in six weeks time, possibly we ve been working with ou allies on the ground, states like michigan, california, great governor partnership there to expand access t medication and surgica abortions in the meantime. we know that there are als governors who are stockpiling, that s another valid option to try to protect their constituents we also know that it s not going to be enough we need broader reform specifically court reform. we ve got this court that is siding with laws from the 1800 from the 1930s, rather than th people living right in front o them, and it s going to be har
everybody. we have been talking about the supreme court allowing acces to the abortion, pil mifepristone, for now. that case before three judge panel on the fifth circuit court of appeal. pretty conservative court, b the way. and i want to turn the collectible the nation s top lawmakers are reacting to it all and bases, julia tsirkin is following it this for u from the hill. what are you hearing well, just a couple minutes ago, yasmin, we heard from the nrsc chair, the person i charge of the senate political arm for republican, steve, daines who tweeted saying this decision by scotus is, quote, setback in the fight for lif which is significant because i was prepared to say we haven t heard much from top republicans, including from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and ove in the, house speaker kevi mccarthy but democrats on the flip side they know how important it i to stay in front on this issue and his state loud on this issue. because they saw what happened with the 2022 midt
away these 2016 regulatory changes would preven mifepristone from bein accessible however,, yasmin it s importan to zero in on the facts. hear the facts are, here if we went back to the year 2000 access to mifepristone, th abortion pill, drug would look drastically different than wha we re accustomed to since 2016 folks would have to go in fo multiple visits to the doctor office to be able to get tha pill it would have to be ther in-person, naturally it also would only be able t get it up until seven weeks. rather than ten weeks in pregnancy. this would also cause a lot of confusion with providers and patience throughout th country. and in my conversation wit providers this morning, an clinics, they told me that look this is a huge sigh o relief but the sigh of relief is very temporary. because as access to this ke drug could look different as the place plays out in the courts and in the years to come they have been stockpiling