menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to th
How soon could that happen well, alicia, i think thi is on a staff rocker to th supreme court. i think there s no way thi couldn t go to the supreme court eventually right now, judge kacsmaryk s ruling it has been an appeal t the fifth circuit. it is a famously conservativ court. but that court doesn t actuall have to do anything. judge has merrick issued a seven-day stay, so it is seven days before his state actually goes into effect the circuit just sit on this for seven days, and that would really put this in the questio of whether it goes to th supreme court. i think the fda would have t seek approval at the supreme court. they could ask for - which this happened before basically get the supreme cour to take this up to resolve a conflict between the washingto injunction and this toxic decision again issued by a single judge in texas. but nationwide decision that would basically imperil all of mississippi are ston accessibility across the country. composition of this court - fo