tonight justin pierson on his historic expulsion and the anti democratic republican movement in tennessee an beyond and private jet, super yachts, and the every man facade of th supreme court justices there is something normal about it i come from regular stop clarence thomas responds to explosive reporting on the secret gifts that he has bee receiving from a republica maga donor when you, somebody is flyin you around the world and takin you around on their super fanc boots, you are indebted to them. all in starts right now good evening from new york, am chris hayes we have breaking news this evening. we just received a shocking if not unexpected audacious, to m mind lawless reeling from federal judge in texas appointed by donald trump. undoing the fda s 23 year ol approval of one of the two drugs commonly used in medication abortion. this pill has been safely used by millions of people across the country for decades, i a sure that people watching this program right
tonight, alex is off and she will be back and joining us next week we re gonna start the evenin with breaking news out of texa were trump appointed federal judge has issued a ruling th lava act on the lives of nearl every person in the country. why do we say every person because it s about every perso who can become pregnant, everyone who cares about someone knocking apartment, an everyone who cares access to regulated drugs. pretty much everyone has a stake in the case. it revolves around the first o two pills better use i medication abortion. mifepristone, first approved b the fda in the year 2000 it s been used overseas fo that gates before that but tonight, the approval is o pause. because of a case brought by a group of conservative christia lawyers, with a history of failed lawsuits talkin transgender student athletes months, ago one month ago, the lawyers on behalf of antiabortion organizations and doctors argue to the u.s district judge, matthew ka merrick, that the f
abortion pill ruling from th texas judge is in. what it means for access acros the country and what comes next and our friday night cap i here with other major storie of the week, and they re mvps, as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is friday and our nightcap is standing b to break down another historic newsweek so, don t go anywhere. but we are going to start this broadcast again back in th city of nashville, where two black state lawmakers were expelled from the tennesse legislature after peacefully protesting against gun violenc in house chamber the former state representative, justin jones, might not be former furlong the majority of the national city council say they will vot to reinstate him until a special election can be held the tennessee expulsions o cause national outrage president biden posting this photo of his virtual meeting who are now known as the tennessee three earlier. vice president harris called the
junk science that was pu forward by antiabortio opponents that contradicts the 20 plus years of safe access t mifepristone that women have relied on two and pregnancie safely it just is really a crisis o democracy and it s a crisis of health care. right after the, texa ruling a judge in washington state ordered the fda not to rollback approval of the drug. however, that ruling only flie to the 17 states in washington d.c. where democratic s tierne general made the challenge meanwhile, national outlet - after two black lawmakers rose expelled from the tennesse house after protesting gun violence in the chamber. their white colleague wa spared, msnbc s simone sanders sat down with the legislator in an interview later today. this whole process has been a farce of our due process it s been a farce of our constitutional system of government and so everything about this, even the trial tha they had, it was when the verdict was decided before we even started talking. we re n
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