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a day after the six-week abortion ban went into effect, a judge has ordered the law to be put on hold. anyhow it s up to the all-male justices of the state supreme court. plus we re on standby for another member of the oath keepers to be sentenced for their role in the january 6th capitol insurrection, one defendant telling the judge she was just another idiot running around the hallway. then, 12 people are injured and the big question is, why did he do it? hello, everyone, and welcome to the lead, i m biana. a judge has blocked south carolina s new abortion restrictions from going into effect. yesterday, governor henry mcmaster signed a law banning most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy before many women even know they re pregnant. it did allow for some exception b s but it s all on hold. dianne gallagher is following these developments for us. what happens now? zbl. reporter: so, at this point in south carolina, the limit on abortions returns ....
the u.s. treasury pushes back the possible default deadline from june 1st to june 5th, giving debt limit negotiators to reach an agreement. the house minority leader, hakeem jeffries, joins me in just a moment r for an exclusive interview. in ukraine, at least two people are dead and 30 injured after a russian attack on a medical clinic, ukraine claims was deliberate. we ll have a live report from the war zone. and as americans prepare to set out for the memorial day weekend, cnn is at the airport and on the highways with everything you need to know about one of the busiest travel days of the year. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our top story this evening, the u.s. treasury says debt limit negotiators have slightly, slightly more time to try to strike a deal. but it s still not clear if the two sides can reach an agreement before the nation defaults. from congress to the ....
Sent back by the governor to try and figure out a way to fix and tweak this bill so it would adhere to what the supreme court wanted. there were discussions and debate during this. in fact, those five so-called sister senators, three republicans, one independent, one democrat, warned lawmakers that they thought that the language that had been tweaked did not address the supreme court s concerns. one of those, you actually spoke with earlier today, who says this is exactly what she expected. i m not surprised at all that there is an injunction against this law, and it s just very unfortunatw we know those clauses were a problem, yet the house, you know, put them bac there, reinserted them, and that s that was one obecause i don t think it can be upheld. reporter: now, there are other republican lawmakers who said they do feel that the tweaks they made to the ....
Governor henry mcmaster signed that new law into effect that would have banned abortion after six weeks. but less than 24 hours later, today, a judge issued a temporary hold on that law, saying that it needed to first be reviewed by the state supreme court. now, look, that s something that s familiar to many people, especially in south carolina because earlier this year, the state supreme court struck down a previous six-week abortion ban, saying that it violated the state constitution and guarantees to privacy. this is something that many of the opponents to the law argue during debates in both the house and the senate. those five so-called sister senators, three of them who are republicans, saying that they warned their colleagues that language that had been tweaked would not go far enough. we know those clauses for a problem, yet the house, you know, put them back in there, reinserted them. and that s that was one of the main reasons why i voted against it because i don t think ....