SCOTUS Maintains Access to Abortion Drug...For Now
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🗓️ 14 June 2024
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Summary
In a unanimous decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court preserved broad access to the abortion drug mifepristone — at least for now. The justices dismissed the case on a technicality, ruling that the anti-abortion groups and doctors who brought it didn't have a legal right to sue. But the court's decision isn't a solid win for abortion access. The justices didn't weigh in on the substance of the case, meaning it could end up back in front of the court. Already, three Republican-led states are trying to make that happen. Julia Kaye, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project, explains the ruling and what's next.
And in headlines: President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders agreed to finance a $50 billion loan to Ukraine to help pay for its war against Russia and rebuild the country's infrastructure, former president Donald Trump schmoozed with House and Senate Republicans during his first visit to Capitol Hill since the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the ACLU and immigrant rights groups sued the Biden administration over the president's executive order severely limiting asylum claims at the southern border.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, June 14th. |
| 0:02.9 | I'm Trayvon-Vincofsky. |
| 0:05.8 | And this is what a day, the show where we're marveling at disgraced |
| 0:09.4 | former President Trump's choice to prepare for the RNC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by reportedly |
| 0:15.1 | calling it a horrible city? That was while meeting with House leaders on Thursday. |
| 0:19.2 | You know, this is the kind of 4D chess he's always playing? |
| 0:23.2 | Like the man says, he has a very, very large brain. |
| 0:26.6 | Huge brain. |
| 0:31.1 | On today's show, G7 leaders agreed to loan Ukraine $50 billion to rebuild and for weapons in its fight |
| 0:38.4 | against Russia. Plus, former president and convicted felon Donald Trump visits to |
| 0:43.7 | but first we finally saw some action from the Supreme Court on |
| 0:48.6 | Thursday the justices issued opinions in three cases and the big one was a unanimous decision to maintain |
| 0:54.9 | access to the widely used abortion drug Mifipristone at least for now the other |
| 1:00.6 | two decisions were more like docket deep cuts. |
| 1:03.4 | In one case, the justices sided with Starbucks in a labor dispute, |
| 1:07.5 | and that ruling could make it harder for the National Labor Relations Board to step in |
| 1:11.8 | when a company is accused of retaliating against unionizing |
| 1:14.8 | workers. The other decision was a ruling against a California lawyer who was trying to |
| 1:19.8 | trademark the phrase Trump too small. |
| 1:23.3 | So maybe the Supreme Court just decided that the phrase insinuating |
| 1:27.1 | Donald Trump has a small penis |
| 1:29.2 | is not meant to be owned by just one person. |
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