high court speaks for now. the abortion drug mifepristone remains on the market after th supreme court blocked a ruling to toss aside its long-standin fda approval what now plus, trump back on trial. the civil rape case brought by journalists were e. jean carroll about to begin our legal experts will tal about what trump will say an if that matter, show up. also the right wing guns and radicalization, there is a intersection between them. is this a factor in the rash o shootings across the country from the board room to broadway, our conversation with the firs latina actress to front a play by the legend, andrew lloy weber. this is american voices. we begin this hour with th first major test for abortio rights in front of the supreme court since the conservative majority overturned roe last summer on friday, the court temporarily blocked a decision by u.s. district judge matthew kacsmaryk, which throughout th fda longtime approval of mifepristone the drug, which is also
block the ruling for mifepristone, but it remains o the market, what now plus, trump, back on trial, th civil case about to begin. our legal expert on if trump could speak, before what matte shows up also, the right-wing gun radicalization, there is a intersection between them. is it a factor in this rash of accidental shootings in this country? and from the boardroom, to broadway a conversation with the firs latina actress to front a play by the legend, andrew lloy weber, this is american voices we begin this hour with the first major test for abortio rights in front of the supreme court since the conservative majority overturned the rule last summer, on friday, th court temporarily blocked decision by u.s. district judge, matthew kacsmaryk, which throughout the fda s longtim approval of mifepristone the drug, which is also used t treat miscarriages, will remai widely available in states where abortion access is legal as all of this plays out i court. since the dobbs decis
into effect. but right then and the nex sentence, he basically sai that he did not think that the harms that the doj and the drugmaker expressed what befal the nation if the ruling wen into effect. he said that he did not thin that those are important enoug for a stay he s tied to have it both ways in his dissent last night. what did you make of it the dissent was caustic the first thing i made out o it was how sarcastic and bitin it was, particularly with th use of stays that has been a tool of th conservatives in the corporate early during the trump presidency it s the rise of academics what the - the shadow docket, cases tha the supreme court decide without fully elaborated upo decisions, much less ora arguments. justice alito was basicall saying to the liberals, yo complain so many times, when w have granted stays, and here you are doing it again and a totally unjustifiabl situation.
within 6 to 8 weeks, they stil can t get in front of th supreme court to the supreme court s own schedule, unti probably fall of next year wit the whole argument and you know, as well as i, do alicia, when the court i deciding abortion or anythin controversial, gun control affirmative action, they ten to wait to the end of its term to issue a decision. that brings us squarely to jun of 2024, and then we could b facing something like a dobb backlash, all over again i was about to say, we need a graphic with that timeline and then i looked up, an they re in fact, was a graphic with that timeline chris, what are the things tha struck me. you had justices alito and thomas voting against the state, saying they would have let par of kacsmaryk s ruling take effect, what stood out to yo from alito s dissent here? i think there are two things one, i think that we need to note the fact that justice thomas did not write, and think that there are multipl reasons why that might hav happened it
the mood to take a swing at th ultimate issue right now but also, it is possible tha right now, he thinks he should sit back a little as he deal with his own controversies but, as for justice alito, i think that, what we saw is tha there was a line at the end of his opinion where he sort of was a bit defensive, and was like, just regardless of wha other people might say about this, this is not a decision about me on merits this isn t about whether or no i think what the fda did was appropriate, it was just about this stay, this request from doj to keep kacsmaryk s ruling from going into effect but, right then, in the next sentence, he basically sai that he didn t think that th harms that doj and dangl laboratories, the drug maker expressed, and would be fall the nation if the ruling wen