roe v. wade was overturned the justice department says the high court needs to weigh in again to iron out the details of its decisions to give the issue back to the state. doj has filed an emergency application asking the justices to strike down a texas ruling that essentially band the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide we re going to explain what doj is arguing and how soon the court might decide on hearing the case and what happens if it does not decide immediately. we ll also get into what happened overnight in florida. governor ron desantis signed a bill making abortion illegal after just six weeks well before many women, as you know, have any idea they are pregnant desantis s new ban did not come with fanfare, no news conference, no on camera pats on the back the only announcement was this photo right here, posted to social media at 11:04 p.m. the politics of abortion have not been a winner for the gop, and polling suggests it will be an albatross around governor desa
Because he has never been in politics. we now know he has almost never voted before. he can say anything. he is like the guy running for student council who will say we can have free beer. he can be a fox commentator, a trump cabinet, it s all up side for him. when i ran for student council, i did a goonies theme. it wasn t beer. i hear what you are saying. to that point, i mean it s something to be a kind of outsider when you don t have to run your record, you have other governors on the stage who really and former u.n. ambassadors, to name a few, who you have a record you can point to, pick away if you need to. and you have president biden, of course, who wihen he was on tha stage in the center vying for the dnc nomination everyone was looking at his senate record, as the vice president, also what his president barack obama was doing as well. he has commented on trump s arrest. he did so today.
Is going to do just because it issued an administrative stay to preserve the rights of all involved here. i am looking to see if between 12 noon on tuesday and 11:59 on wednesday whether the court is going to ask within the period of the administrative stay that justice alito granted or whether it do something like in the sb8 case where the plaintiffs wanted emergency relief from the court and they couldn t get it before sb8 took effect. if judge kacsmaryk s ruling takes effect here even for a short period of time, it would be nothing short of confusion and disaster on the ground for women and girls in this country. all right it would be confusing as you said so come tuesday night what is your exception of what the supreme court might decide given all that i think a lot of this is going to come down to justice kavanaugh, who wihen he was a judge on the d.c. circuit was differential to the fda s