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abortion rights still enact a decades old ban? what happens with abortion pills? where can they and cant they be mailed? what about the politics, can a republican congress with a republican president now move to restrict all abortions across the can country? what can democrats do to reverse this, if anything? at least ten states quickly moved to implement laws effectively banning abortions since friday, some happened with trigger laws, another five states expected to enact further laws...

So where does the decision to overturn roe versus wade by the supreme court sit in terms of public opinion? john avalon with a reality check. >> democracy is supposed to reflect the will of the people, majority rule. and persuasion is supposed to be key to bridging divisions and solving problems. these core principles are looking quaint today because the supreme court just pulled off an ideological power grab that ignores persuasion and popular opinion and that has conservative activists celebra...

Thanks very much. a good tuesday morning to you. tonight president trump will carry out a political tradition that is also a constitutional mandate. he will report on the state of the union in a speech being described by advisers as bipartisan and optimistic inviting democrats to heal old wounds and build new coalitions. a lot more democrats than last year will be in the house chamber to hear them. all of them are keenly aware that another government shutdown and potentially a constitutional s...