Privile privileges to a hospital within 30 miles and requiring facilities have to hospital like standards is a violating their right. Whole Womans Health versus hellerstedt. Mr. Chief justice, may i appease the court. The texas requirements undermine the careful balance between statess legitimate interest in regulating abortion and woman ability to make their own decision. They create obstacles to abortion access. There is a preliminary question. Would you address that . That disclaim is for prudence. Lets take first the claim that was in the prior litigation. Lets assume they are separate claims. That was argued and decided. Why isnt it precluded . Your honor, it is not precluded because staff to the claim developed subsiquent. The new action is filled six days after the Supreme Court issues its decision in this case. You could have asked for supplement briefing. In abbot, the plaintiffs brought the new fact do is the court of appeals and the court of appeals said it would only consid
President bushs nominees, including a large number of District Courts and courts of appeals, and it was actually confirming letting the Senate Confirm nominations right up through september of an Election Year. No, if there were then that did not go through that it was for other reasons. He set, really, a record. Now, contrast that to what happened when george w. Bush was in the last two years of his presidency. I was chairman. So there could be no question on fairness, i put through 68 of his nominees. The republicans have about only 16 of president obamas in the last two years of his presidency, as opposed to the democrats allowing 68 of republican president s. Use any standard you want, republican president s were treated more fairly. Host your republican colleagues would disagree. Senator biden said they should not go forward with a nomination in 1992. Nothing happened in 1992 sen. Leahy no. Host now they are calling it the biden rule. Sen. Leahy yeah, we actually they raised that
One way or the other about that. But i do want to what i but i think getting to the point of your honors question, i think the problem the District Court confronted here, and i think the reason the District Court acted reasonably, despite the presence of the severability clause and the severability clause provides an instruction that that every provision, every clause, every word, every application, every individual should be severed. And the problem is the problem with the kind that the court noted, i think, in the ayotte case, for a court trying to apply that, the courts got to go in and decide which collection of the many, many requirements there ought to stand and which shouldnt, and its its going to be invading Justice Alito well, its all general verrilli the states regulatory problems. Justice alito its work, but maybe the District Court should have done that work. I mean, i read through this, and i was surprised. I read through these regulations. I was surprised by how many are
Was a big night for democrat Hillary Clinton, winning seven states. Bernie sanders took four, including his home state of vermont. This campaign, as i think all of you know, this campaign is not just about electing a president , it is about transforming america. Amy on the republican side, donald trump swept a victory come also with seven states and claimed he is a unifier. I am a unifier. I know people will find it hard to believe, but i am a unifier. Once we get all of this finished , im going to go after one person, thats Hillary Clinton on the assumption she is allowed to run. I dont know she is going to be allowed to run. Amy republican ted cruz his home state of texas, also oklahoma and alaska. We will spend the hour looking at the race at the white house with a roundtable of guest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The biggest voting day of the president ial race was a big night for democratic ca
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this the nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. He proved last night that he is the undisputed republican from un, yet the target on Donald Trumps back tonight comes not just from fellow candidates or even from the left, but from the heart of the Republican Party establishment. In fact, the man who last won the republican rom nation, mitt romney, about to join the fight to stop him. It comes as trump vanquishes another opulent, a winless dr. Ben carson effectively throwing in the towel tonight. Trump won seven out of 11 states on super tuesday. On the Democratic State Hillary Clinton with seven victories of her own. Neither has the number of delegates needed to seal the deal, and that tonight is keeping hope alive for those determined to stop them. Nbcs Hallie Jackson starts us off with the latest. Reporter looking to november, donald trump is looking president ial down to the gold chairs and chandeliers at hi