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it for weeks, it suspended fda approval of mifepristone, th drug that, as you know, ha been safely used for more than 20 years, has become the mos common method for terminatin pregnancies in this country. within an hour, another federa judge in washington state, contradicted that ruling ordering the fda to keep the drug available at 17 states in d.c. president biden last night condemning the texas route calling it, quote, the next bi step before the national ban o abortion by republican elected officials have vowed to make a lot america. vice president kamala harris committed to fighting back there is no question, president and i are gonna stan with the women of america, and do everything we can to ensure that women have the ability to make decisions about their health care, their reproductiv health care, in a manner tha is what they need, and the decide that, not their government the drug will continue to b available for now, since the texas judge gave the fda seve ....
Exactly the opposite that cases brought by 18 states, whose attorneys general wanted to join the fda for making any changes to the existin regulations, in fact, one of the fda to go even further i remove certain restrictions, that exist to date on th availability of mifepristone right now, you have the fd subject to two totally contrar rulings, you ve got a seven-da pause on the rulings from th judge in texas, and th department of justice, which filed an immediate appeal last night. with the fifth circuit that s a federal court o appeals, that oversees the area, including texas, it is als known as perhaps the mos conservative and ideological federal peels court in the country. lisa, this is the first tim a judge has overruled the fda scientific testing process you called it a stroke of evil genius tell me why. it s a stroke of evil genius, and here is why, alicia. in the wake of dobbs, whic ....
Texas judge gave the fda seven days to appeal, the justic department said no time in doing so in short, the fda is being tol both to revoke and maintai approval what does that mean for thos seeking abortion care across this country joining me now to discuss, msnbc legal analyst, lis reuben lisa, talk us through these tw cases. in texas and washington state, and what happens next? let s first start with conflicting result, alicia, as you noted, in texas last night we had a judge who has staye the fda s 2000 approval of mifepristone that s not an order to the fda to do anything what the plaintiffs had aske for was, an order to withdra or suspend that approval he characterizes this as a lis ricotta, but actually, it more dramatic if anything. it s basically acting as i that approval in 2000, never happened at all. now, at the same time, as yo noted, there s a ruling in our later, from a washington federal court, that does almos ....
Altogether so, it wasn t a battle between the federal government in state, but rather, the federal government s conflicting regulations wouldn t exist anymore. lisa, i have about a minute left, i think the big question here, do you see this landin before the supreme court absolutely. there s no way that this kit that they can get resolved without it usually, what we see is what s called a circuit slip, went to federal appeals courts diffe on something, and then escalates to the supreme court one of the tools that th conservative movement learne during the trump administration, how to leapfrog appeals cour and sent something directly to the supreme court when the wanted a particular outcome. here, i expect a department of justice to use that on its own if they don t get an answe fairly soon, from the fift circuit court of appeals about whether a state of judge kacsmaryk s order would happen meaning, they would furthe pause his or her after thi coming friday. they will take that to t ....