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
good morning to you on saturda april the 8th, i m velshi. it is been a short week in american politics. former president donald trum appeared for arraignment i manhattan, criminal cour political tensions are on th front. his extremist ideology wil carry on whether or not he succeeds in getting back to th white house. on tuesday, we saw trump i unfamiliar territory inside courtroom waiting for the judg to give him the criminal charges division filed against him. former president already twice impeached and still currentl facing eleni of other criminal and civil complaints, he pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony accounts of falsifyin business records in relation t the hush money payments made t stormy daniels with whom h allegedly had an affair. trump continues to lie those allegations. he s also reported to making dozens of social media pos criticizing the manhatta district attorney, alvin brang the judge assigned to his case and even their family member who have nothing to do
melissa s comments are ver interesting. very interesting as if, i agre with them, as if this were eight and a rational decisio premised on rational finding about the lack of safety of th drug look at the language of this decision which is that we talk abou doctors as abortionists, the medication starves the unbor human until death, it resurrec these notions that women, what is really going on is that women terribly regret th decision to have an abortion and in a universe in which federalist societies, judges are concerned about th ministry of agency is no taking care, not being careful about the science if there i an administrative agency tha is careful about the science that is the fda. this is not a contrivance, the have hearings, there are findings, and in this case a 2 or battles so i think that this is complete pretext by a judge wh
for the very purpose of gettin this judge, with a new would rule with them so it s really just shocking that this single judge i upending and threatening acces to medication abortion as yo said, in every state in th country. as you look at similar case across the country when it comes to abortion, judge typically use the term fetus this judge doesn t this judge uses the term unbor human and unborn child i almost wonder whether he i setting himself up for a appeal twist on the fact tha this doesn t seem to be th most sensible of rulings just the way judges ar supposed to rule this judge does seem to be going farther than the plaintiffs claim eve represented. i, mean the judge throughout the opinion, he use the rhetoric of th anti-abortion rights movemen and so, again, it makes clea what his own personal opinions are on this. and what s really important to