good evening, and welcome t politicsnation tonight s lead, rights versu might. it has been a whirlwind political week, with republicans from the state house to the courthouse, tryin to force their ultraconservative agenda o americans who have repeatedl rejected their platform at the ballot box but trump appointed federa judge yesterday suspended th fda s longtime approval of ach abortion drug, the latest blow to reproductive rights which have been under assault sinc the overturn of roe v. wad last summer. meanwhile in tennessee republican state lawmakers voted to expel two black representatives for speaking out against gun violence invoking rules used only twice before since the civil war a fair lawmaker who barely escaped this himself joins u live in just a moment. and of course, there s forme president donald trump, defyin in the face of an unprecedente criminal indictment. his house gop allies are rushing to his defense targeting the democratically elected africa
it for weeks, it suspended fda approval of mifepristone, th drug that, as you know, ha been safely used for more than 20 years, has become the mos common method for terminatin pregnancies in this country. within an hour, another federa judge in washington state, contradicted that ruling ordering the fda to keep the drug available at 17 states in d.c. president biden last night condemning the texas route calling it, quote, the next bi step before the national ban o abortion by republican elected officials have vowed to make a lot america. vice president kamala harris committed to fighting back there is no question, president and i are gonna stan with the women of america, and do everything we can to ensure that women have the ability to make decisions about their health care, their reproductiv health care, in a manner tha is what they need, and the decide that, not their government the drug will continue to b available for now, since the texas judge gave the fda seven days
that does it for me, thanks fo watching, i ll see you bac here tomorrow at 5 pm eastern. for another live hour of politicsnation my two top guests, expelle tennessee state representative justin jones, he ll tell u about his meeting with vic president kamala harris, and also, the chairman of th congressional black caucus stephen hartford you don t want to miss that. american voices with alici menendez starts right now on msnbc. reverend sharpton, wh better to have those conversations i look forward t watching tomorrow. hello, to you at home, i m alicia menendez. we begin this weekend with two dueling decisions throwing the future of a key abortion medication in limbo. setting up what is likely to b a supreme court showdown first, federal judge in texa issued his highly anticipate ruling we ve been talking abou
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saying they want gun safet legislation enacted. here s the thing, i think yo can look at all of these polic issues and they all time back to th bigger questions of democrac and reform, includin gerrymandering, which yo referenced, you wouldn t b sitting here having this conversation in the same way if there were not these larger forces at play, making sur that the voices of a minorit appeared as a voice of the majority and i wonder, for you, a someone who does the work of both understanding thi electorate, but also engagin this electorate, such that the don t decide hey, i m gonna si this one out because that s always th concern. if people come to the plac where they feel disenfranchise from their democracy, if the feel ignored, that then, instead of showing up twice as hard, they begin to slink away i wonder how you think about that complicated push and pull well, we re looking at it i relationship to two differen factors. one, factor, how is it tha