Post Game: Dueling rulings leave abortion pill in jeopardy, with Laura Jarrett
The Chuck ToddCast
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🗓️ 9 April 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd. I just stepped off the Meet the Press set. I interviewed the |
| 0:06.0 | ousted Tennessee State representatives Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson. |
| 0:10.2 | Trump lawyer James Trustee and Congressman Mike McCall, the Republican chair of the House |
| 0:14.0 | Foreign Affairs Committee, he came to us from Taipei where he met with Taiwan's president. |
| 0:19.8 | Let's just say though, in the legal world it's been a pretty busy week. On Tuesday, former |
| 0:23.0 | president Trump was formally arrested and arraigned in New York City and on Friday, two legal |
| 0:27.5 | rulings by federal judges in Washington and Texas delivered conflicting guidance on the |
| 0:31.8 | future of one of the more important parts of the medicated abortion treatment. This along |
| 0:38.2 | with the partisan rank or over the most expensive Supreme Court race last week in history in Wisconsin, |
| 0:43.6 | a reporter from ProPublica that charges just as Clarence Thomas with accepting luxury trips |
| 0:48.6 | from a wealth Republican donor. Perhaps leaves Americans with a vision of the judiciary |
| 0:52.8 | that has really been more divided and out of touch than it is today. I'm sitting here now |
| 0:57.2 | with NBC News Senior Legal Correspondent, Lord Jarrett. She was on the Sunday round table. We |
| 1:02.3 | invited her on because we knew we were going to do a bunch of legal stuff. And that was before |
| 1:06.7 | the abortion rulings. And as you were just saying, and don't forget the vice president of the United |
| 1:10.7 | States test to testify before a grand jury. And we barely, and we barely noted this. When you |
| 1:17.6 | got into the business of becoming from actually practicing law to covering the legal community, |
| 1:23.4 | is this the week you dreamed of as a correspondent or not? This is probably as good as it gets. |
| 1:30.6 | Although I fear sometimes when you say that, I know people get like, well, reinterpret, |
| 1:34.7 | oh, you guys love this stuff. No, but what I mean by that is that these are like the things |
| 1:40.9 | that you study in law school, right? This idea of dueling injunctions on most widely used |
| 1:46.1 | pill by the majority of Americans, these are like law school exam dreams because it doesn't |
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