Well, it's the Quick Open today. This is Meet the Press. Now, I'm Chuck Todd reporting

from Washington and we're the Quick Open because we got breaking news out of the Supreme

Court just moments ago, the court temporarily blocked that Texas federal court district

courts ruling that would have pulled a common abortion drug, Mifopristone, off the shells

across the United States at midnight tonight. This key abortion drug is part of a two-step

regimen that accounts for half of all abortions that take place in the United States these

days. The court ruled in favor of the Justice Department Temporary Room. After the DOJ requested

that the court intervene and supersede a partial stay that was issued by the Fifth Circuit

Court of Appeals, that stay would have kept the pill legal, but significantly increased

regulations to obtain and use it. This ruling means that neither stay or the original

Texas ruling will go into effect overnight, but it still could go into effect at a later

point. All of this essentially basically just stops the clock this weekend. So I got

a slew of experts with me right now to help break this down. I'm BC News Washington

Corresponding, New Michelle Sendoor covers the abortion rights fight in this country for

us. Also with me, I got Robert Barnes, the Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington

Post, and we will have Laurie Jarrett, our senior legal correspondent joining us in a moment.

But Yamiche, break down, give me the quick details of this stay from Justice Alito.

Well, certainly an important development here, and I want to make sure I'm reading part

of this because I think it's important. Justice Alito is granting the Justice Department

to request for an administrative stay to preserve the status quo when it comes to this abortion

pill. He called for a response from the plaintiff that originally filed the Texas lawsuit.

And this means that last week's decision, as you said, will not go into effect tonight.

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