Important discussions we have had this week. The Supreme Court has agreed now to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal Election Interference case. We it will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled arguments for april 22nd, and a final ruling might not come until months later at the end of the term in june. If the court ruled in favor of trump the special counsels charges would be dismissed. The u. S. Court of appeals unanimously ruled trump does not have absolute immunity. The Supreme Court does affirmed that, the delays still would push the start of the trial probably into the fall. Lets bring in former litigator and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, and former u. S. Attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. Good morning to you both. Lisa, lets pause for a moment, i think this was shocking used a lot of people, lets talk about what the decision is and what it is not, it does not mean the supreme agrees that donal
denied emergency medical care. i ll never forget one of the doctors just ripping off his gloves throwing them at the trash and saying i can t help you anymore. you have to geout of state. almost a year later, the landscape of abortion access is even worse. republicans remain focused on pushing restrictive laws that americans overwhelmingly reject. the body inside of the mom s body is not her body. not her body, not her choice. the supreme court may have empowered the states to reshape abortion law, but reproductive rights remain a national issue that the biden/harris administration and congress must respond to, to forge a road map for the work that lies ahead. tonight, from dallas, in a state considered ground zero in the national fight over abortion rights, this is one year post-roe, a reidout special with vice president kamala harris. hello, and thank you for joining me on this special edition of the reidout. my guest for the hour is vice president kamala harris.
i ve never met this person in my life, he said, in 2019 after carol told the story in her book she s not by type, he added a few months later in an interview with the hill. today, during carol s testimony, he called the case a made-up scam he said her lawyer is a political operative and that carol should have produced the dress she was wearing that day joining me now from outside the u.s. district court in new york city is nbc news correspondent ron allen. so ron, some very heavy testimony today. what else did carol say, and how was she how was she pushed back how did donald trump s lawyers push back against her testimony? reporter: they re going to zero in based on their opening statement on some things that they say are just unbelievable for example, she could not tell the jury exactly when this incident, this alleged incident happened she says it was probably sometime in the spring of 1996, but she has said she doesn t know the exact month, the exact date when this hap
immediately themselves lisa rubin is here to make sense of the law and both new york magazine and uc law professor mary ziegler are here to discuss the consequences for health care and politics let s get right to the reporting and the law, and joining us now are msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin as promised and uc davis law school professor, an expert on the law, will join us in a moment let s talk, lisa, about what the law currently says and what that might mean for how the justices decide on this katy, today is anyone s guess. i wish i had a magic 8 ball. right now as it stands, the supreme court issued an administrative stay, a temporary stay of the lower court s ruling that effectively means that access to mifepristone was exactly as it was before this litigation started but the supreme court has a big decision to make by midnight tonight. self-imposed deadline, unless they extend again. if they did, mary can correct me if i m wrong, i m not aware of any administratio
self-imposed deadline for the justices to decide what to do with mifepristone. the question is why did he extend are there strong feelings about what the courts should do? is one of the justices writing a fiery dissent? laura jarrett is back with us to explain what we know and what will it mean for health care, specifically women s health care mifepristone is not just used for medicated abortion it s also used to help manage miscarriages, and this is not just a theoretical conversation. we have concrete examples of what happens when politicians and the courts start making the rules on health care after more than a year of fertility treatments and a day after she made the guest list for her baby shower, amanda zarorwski found out her 18-week fetus would not survive. she was then denied a medically necessary abortion in texas because her doctors were too scared to do anything that would put them in jail she joined us to explain how near death she had to get before doctors would