they r50u8ed it did nothing to protect womens health but it did put a substantial burden on womens ability to access abortion, so that law was overturned. since then president trump has made two u.s. appointment tuesday the supreme court and there s a new flashing red light warning sign that the new conservative court wants to another look at this particular brand of t.r.a.p. law. the court has now taken up an identical t.r.a.p. law to the texas one they threw out. the case is set to be decided by the supreme court in june. the expectation is that this newly constituted court will change course on that t.r.a.p. law. the expectation is they re going to say that t.r.a.p. law is okay now even if the result is the immediate wholesale shut down of clinics. so when julie burkhart says she feels like there s opposition coming at her all the time, this is what she means. first anti-abortion threats and terrorism and violence have made
where is your church? that veiled threat was not lost on julie, that someone might come shoot her at church just like dr. tiller. julie asked the court for a protective order against the pastor who she said was targeting her at work and home. the pastor turned around and sued julie for a bunch of things for defamation, a piece of that legal fight spun on for years. the trial didn t wrap up until october of this year. julie s lawyer told the jury, quote, violence toward abortion providers isn t speculative, it isn t abstract, this is real. and the jury agreed. julie won. not a surprise to julie, she was confident she would win. but sitting in court listening to the trial, she couldn t stop herself from thinking about the time her old boss dr. george tiller was in a similar spot, when he too got halled in to
desk job stops being a normal desk job because while he does sit at a desk, his desk sits opposite a metal detector, and he wears a gun on his hip. carl swinny works for julie burkhart at the trust women clinic in wichita, kansas. he s the facilities coordinator there which means he s in charge of keeping the staff at that clinic safe as well as the patients who go there for health care. carl worked for dr. tiller s clinic, too. he was the security guard at dr. tiller s clinic up until the day tiller was shot at his church. carl remembers seeing the man who killed his boss. he had come by the clinic when dr. tiller worked there. you d seen scott roader here. i d seen him, yeah. what got me is what he said in court, or so i heard it. he was asked why he didn t try to shoot him here instead of in church and he said well the guard had a gun.
both of them were rejected by the senate which was a big and embarrassing blow for nixon. so, for his third try, nixon chose blackman because he was seen as so uncontroversial he would be hard for anybody to vote against. judge blackman made a good first impression and the senators will vote to decide his fate and barring the unexpected his nomination should sail through. thus far no one has even asked to testify against him. but the unexpected aural has occurred twice, so most senators still are not committing themselves. we find a super uncontroversial guy strategy worked for that nomination. harry blackman s nomination to court was unanimously approved by the u.s. senate. on june 9, 1970, he was sworn in to the supreme court. and somewhat ironically because he was seen specifically as the
womens ability to access abortion, so that law was overturned. since then president trump has made two u.s. appointment tuesday the supreme court and there s a new flashing red light warning sign that the new conservative court wants to another look at this particular brand of trap law. the court has now taken up an identical trap law to the texas one they threw out. the case is set to be decided by the supreme court in june. the expectation is that this newly constituted court will change course on that trap law. the expectation is they re going to say that trap law is okay now even if the result is the immediate wholesale shutdown of clinics. so when julie burkhart says she feels like there s opposition coming at her all the time, this is what she means. first anti-abortion threats and terrorism and violence have made her city an unsafe place for local doctors to practice abortion. so her work around is flying doctors in from out sof state.