talking about the beauty u north i will predict over th course of the year 2023 an possibly 24. before you have yourself an excellent. oh thanks to tom for joinin us tonight it was february 23rd of last year russia was on the brink o invading ukraine the midterm were just beginning to kic into high gear and this story broke in the ne york times two prosecutors leading new york trump inquiry resign, clouding cases future. two prosecutors in manhattan da s office quit out o frustration with the newly-erected elected alvi bragg was not being aggressive enough in prosecuting donald trump okay yes so that story now feels like it came from an alternate universe manhattan da bragg is now th first prosecutor to brin charges against former president over an alleged hush money scheme around the 2016 election so this picture of alvin bragg as a timid prosecutor afraid t take on donald trump, well that picture doesn t seem to fit the bill anymore for weeks alvin bragg has been the
it could be the case that this ruling from judge matthew because merrick is so an principled and lawless and frankly so not smart that even the fifth circuit can t hold its nose and deferment so that s one option they could simply say this ruling is completely and principled and they coul invalidated. they could also uphold the ruling they could also do nothing right? they could pause the rulin while the appeal is pending. but either way, whatever the outcome, i think we know where this goes next that s to the united state supreme court. so this circuit is just an intermediary way station on th way, and the real question her is the landscape of chaos an confusion be heard from around the country, doctors who don t know what is possible, whether they can prescribe medicatio abortion we have heard about states stockpiling mifepristone stockpiling misoprostol. this seems like a soviet red line for anyone who is in need o
when we talk about scotus political scotus ordinar scotus we re gonna talk abou scotus is a currently stands i think people assume, here the layup they ve been waiting for all forms abortion everywhere and yet there are some justices, kavanaugh and roberts about a among, them wh seemed like they were a bi hesitant to strike down roe. obviously not enough to no abide it but when it comes to this, w cascade effect of a ruling i favor of the antiabortio groups, the plaintiffs here, o the drug industry, the fda, th governments, the fda s ability to regulate any drug catastrophic do you think it s a foregone conclusion i think this is wide open before the court again, we have to remember the
amicus, will be inevitably finalist goes to scotus. big pharma has made their voices known throughout all of this and i think, again, it shows that this case goes beyond abortion and touches a lot o conservative bugaboos. this is also about the administrative state and whether we can have regulation and so this is not simply an assault on medication abortion it s an assault on the fda s administrative agency that act under a democratically appointed mandate to do certai things this is according to a skeptical of the administrativ state in certain cases this presents a real conflic you could stick to abortions stick to the administrativ state, we can also be sticking into the idea of the rule of law. - sophie s choice. it is sophie s choice which maybe will you pick? i melissa murray, thank you fo joining us and to get your wisdom on this fraught topic we have more to come and scenic, looting whether republicans ar starting to recognize that the are on the wrong sid
ruling on meth to press ston throws the party into such a extraordinary not just on the subject of abortion but on the basi principles of the government being able to regulate drugs do you think there is any hope that republicans will voice an doubt about whether this law should suit should go through? well, i will say this the off the wall la la decisio by this, i mean, as a lawyer reading the opinion, it is jaw-dropping that when you rea the opinion because he blows u on the most conservative tenants of a rule of law i america, like standing, like timeliness, like exhaustion of administrative remedies. these are all very conservativ principles that have been blow up in the political name o trying to limit abortion everywhere and, by the way, the hypocrisy there, i mean, remember afte dobbs when all the republicans that we want the states to