from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, April 10th.

So if you started your weekend thinking the big stories of last week were the indictment of Donald Trump,

the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, and the expulsion of last week where the indictment of Donald Trump, the Supreme Court

election in Wisconsin, and the expulsion of the two black lawmakers from the Tennessee legislature,

and hey, it's good Friday, Easter weekend, everybody's off except the essential service workers

and the priests. What else could happen? If that was your very reasonable thought process late Friday afternoon,

early Friday evening, well, you were wrong. As most of you have surely heard by now, a Trump-appointed

judge in Amarillo, Texas, then issued a ruling that would ban the abortion pill,

Mifoprestone, for all women, even in states like New York, New Jersey, and

Connecticut where abortion is legal. And then an Obama appointed judge in Washington state

issued a ruling that same night that contradicted the Texas ruling for 17 states. Connecticut

is one of those a little bit more protected states now, but

New York and New Jersey are not. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, a member of the Judiciary Committee,

was on Morning Edition today referring to the Texas judge. He did a really weird thing.

There's a six-year statute of limitations that covers when you can

start appealing these things after they've been decided. This just hasn't been used in a way

that he's used it before. So, and even his own, the lawyers challenging it, noted that they

hadn't seen anything like this before. So in the Fifth Circuit, which is yes,

conservative, you could see them using something like that as a reason to at least stay this

beyond the week so it doesn't take effect or in fact ruling the other way. And then the

Supreme Court, same thing. Supreme Court, same thing. Keep that in mind, it may become relevant in a matter of days,

Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.

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