being challenged, separate court of appeals considering whether texas, arkansas and alabama, second trimester abortions was the aclu has challenged a similar been. cases like these have pro-choice advocates more than any time since the 1973 roe v wade decision. the backpedaling happening from people who have long been critics of roe v wade is because they know what we know which is most american people regardless how they feel personally about abortion believe legal access is for to our country. reporter: most analysts about overturning robie wade would result in a ban of abortion. pretty clear different state would have different options. this narrative that abortion is going away forever is not accurate. reporter: there is no federal statute that makes abortion illegal so overturning roe v wade would have the decision to
member of congress. robie goes into the general election in his district that should be an easy win for a republican incumbent member of commerce, tabitha eisner in november. heather: live in alabama, thank you. time for a western roundup. portland, oregon has become a cesspool, that not our description from the portland police union president responding to democratic mayor ted wheeler claiming homeless people should have fewer interactions with police and more with social service workers. responding in a newsletter about the many issues the city is facing from aggressive panhandlers and garbage filled rvs blocking business doorways. i have been a police officer for 27 years. the city has become a cesspool.
seat and donald trump figuring heavily in those campaigns, good evening, jonathan. hoping to win back the congressional seat from the women who took it from him eight years ago. that did not happen. and recommending leaves 67% of the vote, bobby bright trailing with 32% of the vote. when you look at the last time he was running against her in 2010 bobby bright was running as a democrat in the heavily republican district, this time he was running as a republican and was able to force this race into a runoff with four term incumbent robie. he has always been conservative, linking him to his former party, the biggest of many hurdles he faced in this conference.
the guy has impeccable credentials and pretty much everybody thinks he s going to be a very, very strong judge. he s got a very long history of decisions and scholarship. i think that s a good thing because then you can really see how he s a solid pick. he s got a great sense of humor. as greg knows anybody with a good sense of humor is brilliant. he s hilarious. you saw that last night. people saying robie wade. he is on record as saying roe v. wade is settled law. and he s going to follow gorsuch on that issue. politically if you think about it, i think schumer can t do anything about it unless some surprise comes up in his paperwork and we don t know if that s going to happen. you are saying the other day mansion, heitkamp, joe donnelly all senate democrats up for reelection. they all voted for gorsuch. i don t see why they are not going to vote for kavanaugh as well. they are spending a lot of money on this pick in a national ad campaign. bottom line, schumer comes up
it s not a shock that we see democrats targeting susan collins in particular. she is already gone on record as saying if the president takes anyone who she believes is is hostile to robie wade, she is voting no. writes. they are testing out messages. they are testing out a roe v. wade message. they don t even know who the nominee is. obviously right now it is a p.r. effort it is weighing the groundwork for what we will see in the future. ed: we have seen this with other nominees. this is the grand one obviously. this is the president s attempt to reshape the supreme court. it will say no no matter what. they are laying the groundwork to oppose this no matter what. sure, some of them well. kemal harris, cory booker and others. they are probably at no. they re trying to figure out how to get other members there. you have ten members were