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to terminate pregnancies on hold effective seven days from now. kristen is the name of the drug at first got fda approval more than two decades ago, and until recently the notion of a judge having grounds to reverse approval of it was seen by many legal experts is dubious at best. however, abortion opponents steered their case to a judge named matthew kiss merrick of the fifth circuit in texas, and he has ruled as they hoped just after that. we got word of a ruling in a different federal court in washington state, affecting only some states on the same drug, so there s a lot to get to cnn supreme court reporter ariana vogue joins us right now on both rulings. so first tell us about the texas ruling and what that means. it s been an unbelievable night, right? both of these rulings opposing and they both have to do with the fbi. today s approval of the medication, abortion drugs, and that approval came in 2000. in this first case, what the federal judge said is he blocked ....
i m jessica dean on capitol hill. and this is cnn. captioning is brought to you, by page publishing. want to publish a book? review your manuscript for free book page publishing can help you through the process . we cut through the confusion of the publishing wke it easy for you call 805 630741. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news to court rulings, the first potentially life altering for women in this country. a federal judge in texas putting government approval of a drug widely used to terminate pregnancies on hold effective seven days from now. kristen is the name of the drug at first got fda approval more than two decades ago, and until recently the notion of a judge having grounds to reverse approval of it was seen by many legal experts is dubious at best. however abortion opponents steered their case to a judge named matthew kiss merrick of the fifth circuit in texas, and he has ruled as they hoped just after that. we got word of a ruling in a differe ....
What does that look like? what does that actually mean? think? the interesting thing when it comes to a ruling is that it relies on enforcement, and it is up to the biden administration to enforce to choose whether or not to enforce such a ruling that do we want to live in a world where the government can decide to ignore federal? i do think that this that it raises it ate these important questions , and i do think that when we look at and there are serious questions at the fda, and the administration is going to have to figure out how exactly we mapped this out, but on the other hand, but we are also seeing is it is a power grab over our courts, in which the laws passed by congress and the rules and policies passed by the executive branch. now we re going to require unanimous consent from 650 district court judges, many of which are ....
Drug kristen, which has been safely used for decades by millions of women in medication, abortions, that competing ruling as well affecting 12 states, from a judge, a federal judge in washington state just moments ago, attorney general garland said the justice department will appeal the texas ruling, quoting from the statement, quote today s decision overturns the fda as expert judgment. rendered over two decades that mifepristone is safe and effective. the department will continue to defend the fda decision. joining us now by phone is minnesota democratic senator amy klobuchar, who sits on the senate judiciary committee. senator klobuchar. i m wondering what your reaction to the two rulings is particularly texas ruling. this is just a complete shock for women across the nation. um this is medication. abortion is safe . it was approved, as pointed out by the attorney general over 20 years ago. the approval process took four years. yet this judge and notoriously ....
Presidency with overriding the check on both with the with the supreme court and ruling in their rulings, but what is the check on the supreme court and that is up to the president of united states and congress to ask you about what we saw in tennessee last night? um three legislators who took part in a protest on the floor of the statehouse, not with protesters. but on the actual floor. they had a bullhorn. clearly a violation of the rules of decorum. um, not something legislators. normally do or would, you know, make sense to have legislators do for good order of actually hearing people s arguments that being said the punishment for two of them was to be expelled. how do you see that? do you think that really was about the rules of decorum or something else? we know that that it absolutely was not. we know that. and there is precedent for this, you know, while protest is not a normal ....