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Hi, this is Josh Marshall. This is the Josh Marshall podcast.

We were just talking before we launched into this episode. There's a lot to discuss this week.

You know, we have, it's really a matter of the topics we're not going to get into because there is so much to discuss.

The main thing we're going to talk about this week is this abortion ruling.

Or actually the ruling about the main abortion drug that this judge down in Texas has maybe outlawed or, you know, maybe, maybe told the FDA that it's no longer legal to approve this drug.

But there's a lot of question about what exactly the impact of his ruling is because this isn't a matter of, you know, executive official does X.

You go out, you know, some activist group goes out, gets an injunction, says, no, no, no, no, you can't do that.

We got to work it through the courts because this is something and we've, we've, there's so many, there's so many issues to deal with.

One of the issues is, can Josh pronounce either of the relevant words correctly, the name of the drug or the name of the judge.

We just, we just, I think the judge's name, well, the judge's name appears to be something like Kat's Merrick.

But the, the name looks to be Polish to me, just the, the, the, the letter, the arrangement of letters looks, looks, looks Polish to me.

And Polish names, it's how they came up with their phonetic use of the alphabet.

It is never pronounced the way that the letters actually are supposed to be used.

Now Polish people don't get on my case. I know I'm saying how the alphabet is pronounced in English.

In any case, it's a complex topic because there's so many different things going on.

In any case, the relevant point back to the point about injunctions is that normally, as I said, executive branch official does X.

You go into court, you get an injunction, executive branch official has to stop until it gets adjudicated.

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