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 court's ruling that would have pulled a common

abortion drug, Mitha-Pristone, 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 temporarily 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.

NBC News, Washington correspondent, Yomishal Sindor, covers the abortion rights fight in this country for us.

Also with me, I got Robert Barnes, a Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington Post,

and we will have Laura Jarrett, our senior legal correspondent,

joining us in a moment.

But Yamish, 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.

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