From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the Daily.

As the presidential race moves into high gear, abortion is at the center of it.

Republican-controlled states continue to impose new bans, including just this week in Florida.

But in Washington, the Biden administration is fighting back,

challenging one of those bans in a case that is now before the Supreme Court.

Today, my colleagues, Pam Bellick and Abby Vincickel, explain. It's Wednesday, May 1st.

It's Wednesday, May 1st. So Pam in the two years since Roe v Wade was overturned, more than a dozen

states have instituted pretty strict bans.

But as all of these bans are happening at the state level,

something is happening at the federal level.

And that is the Biden administration is fighting back in a kind of unusual way and that effort came to the Supreme Court last week.

Tell me about it.

Yeah, so the case that went before the Supreme Court last week is basically a fight between

the state of Idaho and the Biden administration over whether Idaho's abortion ban violates a federal law

that's been on the books for decades.

And if it does, then does Idaho have to change its abortion ban. And this case really gets at a bare

question about whether there are still ways that the federal government can limit

state's ability to ban or restrict abortion.

Okay, just to clarify here, the Supreme Court, of course, in Dobbs, left it to states to determine their own abortion

policies.

But what role was left for the federal government?

Was there one?

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