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More republican, but theres a narrow sort of plurality in two, majority in one here where the belief is that abortion should be more legal than illegal. lets talk about the politics of this. joining me, former missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill, also msnbc political analyst, and matt lauery. claire, you come from a state i argue is sort of in this -- most people are within the 30 lines on abortion. either want it to be legal with some exceptions or illegal with some exemptions here. wh...

A way, but thats not what the court was deciding. the court was deciding procedural issues, whether or not to stop the law before it went into effect or not. the case that theyre going to take up in the fall, mississippis 15 week ban on abortion directly challenges roe v wade. that will be a case where the court is sort of directly presented with that question and well find out whether or not the court is willing to go along with that. >> is it likely here that this texas law then, even if roe i...

It is not supported by people in wisconsin or ohio or pennsylvania or georgia or any of the battleground states or suburban districts that will be the battleground in house races. i am not willing to say this was a good thing in any way because it is a terrible thing. but there will be political benefits to democrats as a result of what the supreme court did late last night. >> one thing it will do -- >> have to overturn the filibuster and that would not turn out well for the democrats. >> heres...

Landscape. first dive into the specific situation in texas and the white house response. joining me, executive editor of texas tribune, ross ramsey. ross, start with a simple question. this is now the law of the land in texas, law of the state land there. how does this get enforced? whos in charge of enforcing this law? >> they wrote this to stump the courts. theyre not putting the state or any part of the state, local prosecutors or anything like that in position of enforcing this. instead, as ...

Countries, states around the country, you would flatly restrict abortion. a work around caused by extortion from the supreme court, theres no right to abortion in the constitution. the left is used to using that spurious decision as a way to block democratic deliberation and action on this. i dont know if roe will go or not, it will be eroded. democrats have to get used to winning it in the small d democratic arena rather than running to the courts. >> claire, is the answer to get roe codified i...

Not put the state in position of being sued. when it went to the u.s. supreme court, the court in effect was stumped by this, dissent from four judges, including chief justice, said youre doing an unconstitutional think, but you confounded the court with the mechanism youve got. it raises a ton of questions. >> explain the $10,000, is it reward, bounty? i dont mean to, i mean, it is bizarre. why would somebody who decides to take it in their own hands to stop or help identify an illegally done a...

Unusual way to try to get around the constitutionality of the law. >> it is new. thats why it confounded the courts like it did. ordinarily, they would say state of texas will enforce, if you dont like it, you sue state of texas in this. since you dont have an actor, you dont have executive or government authority, they basically crowd sourced it. until someone files a suit, you dont have a test case. >> like everything with the abortion debate. at the end of the day, nobody wants to take owners...

As we said, the supreme court decision not to block texas restrictive abortion law came in a 5-4 vote last night. in her dissent, sotomayor called the law a breathtaking act of defines of the constitution, of this courts precedents, and the rights of women seeking abortions throughout texas. this comes a month before the court is set to hear arguments on an abortion case out of mississippi in a new law there. to breakdown legal implications of this decision by this court, joined by "the washingt...