on our docket. and, yes, we expect what the supreme court just did to embolden other states and, frankly, other conservative circuit courts, to completely ignore roe v. wade. right now roe v. wade is a dead letter in the state of texas, right. it is still the law of the land. has been for almost 50 years. and yet it has no effect for the women in the state right now. so, of course, we re incredibly concerned. and i just want to say right now, you know, it is important for people to understand congress can fix this. yeah. there is a bill the women s health protection act that would address these kinds of bans and restrictions that have taken us up to the supreme court three times in the last five years. and so it s really important to realize that congress has the power right now to send to the president s desk the women s health protection act to address what is happening in these states right now. we know that vice president harris, she has been involved in
is doing, where they have control in the states. they re not moving anymore to limit abortion. they re moving to ban it all together, full stop. it s happening all at once in a new radical republican party wide draconian effort that we have never seen before. and that sounds unconstitutional, right? because you re not supposed to be able to been abortion that would be against the law. that s of course the entire point here, though. with republicans being very pleased with their position on the supreme court right now with the merrick garland nomination from president obama having been denied as improper by mitch mcconnell as the republican leader in the senate and mitch mcconnell calling that one of his proudest moments in the senate since the current president put brett kavanaugh on the supreme court, for the first time conservatives think they ve got a solid right wing majority on the high court that will overturn roe v. wade as long as they get the chance. they have to get a law up
mcconnell as the republican leader in the senate and mitch mcconnell calling that one of his proudest moments in the senate since the current president put brett kavanaugh on the supreme court, for the first time conservatives think they ve got a solid right wing majority on the high court that will overturn roe v. wade as long as they get the chance. they have to get a law up to the supreme court that they believe will provoke the supreme court fight that will go to those five conservative justices in the way they want to receive that fight so they can overturn roe and claire that abortion can be overturned in states that anybody wants to do it across the country. all these republican-controlled states this year are tripping over themselves to make it happen. but alabama so far is in a class by itself. lots of other states are trying to ban abortion at six week, which is before 90% of women wouldn t even know they were pregnant. alabama isn t even bothering with exceptions for pregn
well, it s interesting, a 2016 decision of the supreme court, almost identical law, that essentially the court of appeals here was trying to say, hey, even though the court in 2016 said this law was unconstitutiu unconstitutional, we re going to reverse that and second it up to the supreme court. ev he upheld the rule of law here and essentially said we re not going to let our precedents be overturned in that way. what does this mean for theru think? one political point on this, remember susan collins and some of the pro-choice republicans who susan collins, specifically, decided to vote for kavanaugh in the end, and she argued strenuously that her private conversations with kavanaugh, her review of his record, led her to believe that she that he would be on the other side of decisions like
americans, daca recipients. let s see if two new yorkers can agree on a deal good for usa. i believe in america anything is possible. that from lindsey graham of south carolina. one of the sticking points about a government shutdown is daca. and at the same time, the department of justice is now asking the supreme court to rule on daca. the action taken last night asked the high court to pibypasa federal appeals court which affects about 800,000 undocumented individuals who were brought to the united states. pete williams has the details. what s happened here since this ninth circuit court decision was handed down just about a week ago? actually a district court decision but the government appeal to the ninth circuit and once it placed a marker there, it used that to ricochet on up to the supreme court which the rules allow someone to try, but, in fact, the supreme court rarely grants this. they want to wait for the appeals court to rule before they take the case almost owls. in th