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constitutional right t abortion was eliminated in thi country nearly a year ago. a federal judge in texas las night issued a sweeping ruling to reverse the food ands 23 year old approval of a key abortion drug, the rulin orders the fda to hold thi medication from pharmacy shelves in every state regardless of whether or not abortion is legal in tha state. u.s. district judge matthew ha put a seven-day hold on hi willing to give the government the opportunity to repeal it the justice dep...

Is an off ramp for anythin about abortion and the situationally avoid lettin women know that they have th option to have an abortion they basically shone peopl into adoption and or other options to guarantee that they give birth judge has merrick has been a long time volunteer in tha movement i think the supreme court has series of off-ramps here, no just because of his language but to michelles point, the decision is wholly outcome determinant on a number of legal issues like standing whether t...

Outcome determinative if the right case comes before th court. in hobby lobby, the suprem court notably it was a cas that was authored by justice alito, the supreme court was willing to defer to a group of businesses that said that they believed that contraceptives - factually inaccurate, no supported by any medicine or science whatsoever, the suprem court was willing to lean into that the supreme court was also willing to lean in by saying well, we carved out this decision to only apply t matte...

Transformative this ruling i and the need to pause it t grant that stay, i expect we will be in front the supreme court sooner than we know it ali. >> lets assume that to be the case michelle, lets take the supreme court, there are a lot of people in this audience and in this country who would say, this is doomed, if it goes t the supreme court we know ho thats going to go except there are specifics about this case that are a little bit perverse. the judges comments in a lo of cases that far exc...

Not less she says. >> and in a statement the ethics committee tells cnn it continues to enforce the requirement that all house members and staff who wish to accept privately sponsored travel must continue to get approval beforehand and file detailed paperwork about any such trip within 15 days. those requirements have not been changed. according to the ethics committee. jake? >> thank you so much. lets bring in our political panel, strategist john feehery and jamal simmons, democratic strategist...

Second point is, democrats are going to have a field day with this. its an easy completely campaign tactic to go after this issue. i think youre going to hear a lot more people. >> john, this is an issue that democrats are going to be able to run on to get women to the poles. >> its also their only campaign issue. presidents ratings are tanking. democrats are in real trouble this cycle because of the tanking ratings. i think theyre going to talk a lot about this. jamal is absolutely right. this ...

Most people dont know the it exists. you have to do travel on both forms as pamela explained. now theyre saying you dont have to on financial disclosure. >> john and i are probably going to agree on this. i actually think having more travel the result of this if you want to pay attention to, as you said, this is inside baseball. most people in the country arent paying that much attention to this. what you want is for congress to work. i would argue having more congressional travel where people g...