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We wont find out until the court render its opinion. >> in your personal view, what is the best case scenario right now? >> if you believe that women should be full participants in our society and have the right to make decisions about their own bodies, and i certainly ascribe to both of those views, then this was not a good argument. i mean, its a little bit dangerous to predict the outcome of a case based on argument. typically you will hear people like me decline to do that because we believe...

From exercising the constitutional right merely because of the number of people in the category and thats just not how constitutional rights work. a state would never say that it could ban religious services on a wednesday evening, for example, simply because most people could attend religious services on another night of the week. >> i wanted to -- thats helpful, i think. i want to make sure i understand what youre telling me. that if the court were to, in this case, step past viability and app...

>> there were two fundamental things going on in the case today. one was this is about personal liberty, about constitutional liberty about women in america. and on the merits of the case, thats what its about. but the second piece going on that we heard articulated by the justices in their questioning is this issue of the courts prec precedent. that pertains to the fact of is the court going to overturn these 50 years of history going back to roe in addition to the past almost 30 years when tha...

Ante to get involved. >> katie, thank you for starting us off. tim and neil, stick around. when we come back, well ask neil what he heard in todays oral arguments at the united states supreme court and whether a ruling to strike down roe versus wade in the mississippi case would open a pandoras box. plus, tragic news from michigan where the death toll in yesterdays school shooting has risen to four and on capitol hill, passionate calls for republicans to stop protecting gun manufacturers and put...

Thing to carry a pregnancy to term -- it was really disturbing to hear how they talked about it. it is still the case that women in this country face tremendous barriers when parenting. and it is still the case that our constitution for good reason has said that to be equal in this country, to be -- to have access to abortion, they are bound up together. so the only thing that has actually meaningfully changed is the composition of the court. and people will not forget that. >> if a teama, gods ...

Brett kavanaugh replaced kennedy. he made a point to point out that there are several landmark cases by the supreme court that overturned previous precedent, such as brown versus board of education. that was not about -- particularly susan collins, one of the few pro-abortion rights in the senate, she said she believed roe versus wade was settled law, and that was not his message today. >> i just got this from justice kavanaugh. if we believe this case is wrong, why dont we go to the return of n...

People are going to feel the consequences. >> theres sort of an if this than that. and if that is the case, then em base the fact that 46% of the country doesnt trust your institution, but they want it both ways. i think six. six of the justices have made comments about this being political. you take justice kavanaghs comments, i dont have a legal analysis of this, but the political analysis of saying who are we to decide, we should send this back to legislatures, the court deals with all sorts ...

Faire, that we can run the country that way? i mentioned that because i want people to read those 15 pages with care. and thats why i said that. if you have anything to add to my plea to read it, please do. >> justice, i agree. i have read those pages and reread them many times. i think this is actually another key distinction from the cases that justice kavanaugh was referring to. that is, as i understand the passages in casey, the court carefully walked through every factor that this court foc...

As an american institution. thats what theyre saying. so were looking at it for that, but we are looking too, and that they say is a reason why. a reason why when you get a case like that, you better be damn sure that the normal stari considerations overruling are really there in spades double, triple, quadruple, and then they go through and show their knowledge. okay? whats the paradox? maybe you think ive just made an argument that there isnt one, but really, in my head, im thinking im not sur...

>> thank you. >> i want to ask a followup question. the chief was asking about the viability line and if that was the right place, the right line to draw. lets take it out of the question and imagine theres a state constitution thats identical to the 14th amendment due process clause. and a state supreme court has to decide as a matter of state constitutional law what the scope of an abortion right is. and the second trimester ends at 27 weeks. and so that state supreme court says we think that ...