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Ginsburg. but this is all ceremonial. her impact is already being felt on the court. she was part of the majority that refused to block the texas abortion law when it came on its emergency docket. and later this morning, that very law is in court again. when a federal judge in texas will take up the justice departments request to block its enforcement. now as a reminder, the law bans abortions as early as six weeks, no exceptions for rape or incest. its considered the harshest abortion law in th...

Drama with the high court these days. >> it is. samuel alito gave a fiery speech complaining how some internal processes were being interpreted. when they stopped -- they refused to intervene in the texas abortion law, let that take effect which stopped abortion rights in texas september 1st. and he was defending the midnight order they put out and the processes that occur on their emergency docket. in a broader picture, brianna, he was the fifth of the nine justices to complain about public exp...

Century and the former president of planned parenthood joyce vants. lets talk about the lawsuit and the hearing to exam the, quote, what they consider advocates, abuses of the shadow docket by the supreme court was recently in the texas case. but congress really cant change that procedure, right, what the court does? >> it cant change it directly, andrea. but it can shine a light on it. here i think what this hearing reveals is the connectivity between the shadow docket, which republicans were v...

Law a scheme. this is what it said in the court papers last night. there can be no dispute ssb-8 i banning abortions before fetal viability. they are laying out harms on the ground. out of state clinics are getting panic calls. women who have the means to travel are worried about traveling because of covid. now everything can move quickly here. there is a scenario where it could go, again, to that appeals court, again to the supreme court on its emergency docket, and the supreme court did allow ...

Concern. >> justice roberts, his dissent, not far off saying this is a scheme to get around. big picture, though, this would be temporary if its issued. on the larger question as to whether laws like this violate roe v. wade, violate precedent, where, when and how will that be decided? >> in the short term right now, things could move quickly depending on what this district court judge does. the district court could enter some kind of temporary restraining order. texas, then, would likely zoom r...

Subject to this thing, another bizarre are rekaegss of the law. i want to turn to ellie mcgaw. and we have the author, dahlia, talk about this. >> you put this in your intro, chris, but this is really pressing on it. this is happening in the shadow docket, the so-called emergency docket where, until very recently, only emergencies lived. suddenly, in the age of covid,

Seeing is that after four years of shouting imaginable, everything is happening quiet. and elena kagan criticized the court for the alliance of the shadow docket, this emergency docket to make decisions of major importance to the country without a full debate. >> yeah, the shadow docket has become a kind of the routine event for the supreme court where they just decide things in these emergency motions. there is no argument below, and often no record below, and no cases brief, nothing. just a la...

Philosophically because theres agents who control their own bodies and theyre not subject to this whole thing another bizarre sort of devious aspects of the law thank you so much. now i want to turn to the justice correspondent of the nation, offer of allow me to to tort, a black eyes guide to the constitution. and dahlia, the senior editor and correspondent for, slate her latest piece is titled, to real ways to answer and texas abortion law. lets start with that dalia, in terms of whats the res...