good evening, and welcome t politicsnation tonight s lead, rights versu might. it has been a whirlwind political week, with republicans from the state house to the courthouse, tryin to force their ultraconservative agenda o americans who have repeatedl rejected their platform at the ballot box but trump appointed federa judge yesterday suspended th fda s longtime approval of ach abortion drug, the latest blow to reproductive rights which have been under assault sinc the overturn of roe v. wad last summer. meanwhile in tennessee republican state lawmakers voted to expel two black representatives for speaking out against gun violence invoking rules used only twice before since the civil war a fair lawmaker who barely escaped this himself joins u live in just a moment. and of course, there s forme president donald trump, defyin in the face of an unprecedente criminal indictment. his house gop allies are rushing to his defense targeting the democratically elected africa
a former president and current presidential candidate puts ou democracy in uncharted territory. trump is already lashing out attacking the investigators, them integrating our justice system, and calling on his supporters to protest. that s all without making an of the pleas for peace w normally expect from someone seeking to lead our nation and republicans, for the mos part, have rallied around him, echoing his claims that th legal system has bee weaponized for those of us with lon memories, no trump has littl regard for the rule of law he did not care about du process when he was calling fo the central park five to b executed before the had thei day in court he did not care about politica witch hunts when he campaigned on lock up, locking up his opponent hillary clinton, with chance of lock her up. and now it appears as if trump s refusal to live by the same rules as the rest of us may finally be catching up wit him. and if it does, the paybac will be richly deserved. it s a
insurrectionist, says he doesn t see a path to electoral college vote anymore. their whole plan was to try to get people in place that could overturn another electoral los in 2024. that was a nationwide strategy suppress the vote and if the couldn t suppress the vote enough to win steal th election overturn the results. wisconsin is the crown jewel the state that they need to get. pennsylvania in michigan are looking pretty brutal righ now. so wisconsin which i permanently on a knife s edg with the only state come down to less than one percentage point wisconsin was a state where they thought the could grab it. and. wisconsin, the first presidential primary a debat is in wisconsin and even the next republican a national committee meeting is i wisconsin because they thought they needed wisconsin and they could get it but they lost the supreme court race now they will have to win fair fight i think they know that they ar not up to the task it s incredible when you pu in that cont
i think, ayman, first, the justice department has already filed an appeal in the texas lawsuit with the fifth circuit court of appeals we also have that case out o washington that is hanging around, they had a different outcome than in texas. so together, i think the create a little bit of chaos about what the current statu is of the availability o mifepristone even the judge and test cyst and state is ruling for seve days to give the parties the opportunity to file that appeal i imagine that as that appea is pending in the fifth circui court of appeals, the drug wil rule maine a bailable in meantime typically the status quo i preserved. if that is - conservative, circuit court of appeals, if they affirm it i imagine this case will go to the supreme court. the issue you raised is a very significant one. the legality of this medical abortion drug loan is a very significant issue, but if it judge can overrule the decisio
democratic senator in 2022 even though the historical physics suggests that the wind should have been behind th republican sales, not th democrats. so the ride has been capture by the very very far right especially the political entertainment industrial complex. i don t see a path out of that for them other than losing a lot of elections to the poin where they decide they need to do something dramaticall different. it is not hyperbolic to say that this was a high stake election, especially wit someone like kelly, wh reportedly advised republicans on legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election. i want to actually play this sound of charlie carcass conservative radio host, reacting to this week results. watch. there goes the wisconsi supreme court. and it decreases our chance to be able to win the white house in 2024. what do you make of that? is he saying the quiet part ou loud frankly, it is the loud part. a bunch of these people, alexander, who is a