Supreme Court justices ‘at each other’s throats’ as abortion pill access upheld legal expert says
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 22 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening everyone. We've got breaking news from the Supreme Court moments ago, the |
| 0:06.3 | high court blocked in full a decision by Texas-based U.S. District Judge Matthew Kedsmark on April |
| 0:13.6 | 7 that invalidated the Food and Drug Administration's long-time approval of the abortion pill |
| 0:18.6 | MIFA Pristone. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito publicly dissented |
| 0:24.9 | from the decision. This means the Supreme Court has allowed the pill to stay on the market |
| 0:29.7 | and remain widely available at least for now. People can still obtain MIFA Pristone |
| 0:35.0 | by mail for now and use it at home and use it up to 10 weeks into a pregnancy as litigation |
| 0:41.0 | continues into the Supreme Court. The generic version of the drug made by a company called |
| 0:46.4 | Gen Bio Pro will also continue to be available. Joining me now are Mini-Temoradju, president |
| 0:52.3 | of the Neyrol Pro Choice America and Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Analyst. Lisa, I want you to |
| 0:58.2 | go through this decision with me because, and I think Ari talked about it in the previous |
| 1:02.4 | hour, but what I read here is something that kind of reads like shade. This decision, |
| 1:09.6 | talking about in recent cases the court has been lambasted for staying a district court |
| 1:14.2 | order based on the scanty review this court gives matters on its shadow docket. This opening |
| 1:20.6 | with lots of criticism of people who've been critical of the court is that normal and |
| 1:25.6 | what do you make of it? This is a court that isn't getting along particularly well, |
| 1:31.4 | Joyce. So you're asking me, is this normal? It hasn't been normal up through the Trump |
| 1:35.9 | presidency and yet we now have nine justices that are largely at each other's throats |
| 1:40.8 | and define the collegiality that has traditionally defined the Supreme Court, but you're right |
| 1:45.5 | to say Justice Alito is indeed casting shade and criticizing folks like Justice Kagan |
| 1:51.8 | who have been critical of the court for mapping on its policy preferences to a number of |
| 1:58.4 | different things through decisions that they don't explain by use of what we call the |
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