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Travel. it could potentially put their health at an even greater risk. and because this sb-8 law, this ban, bans abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected, around six weeks time, thats before many women even know theyre pregnant. and thats been one of the arguments against it. we did hear from a district judge just yesterday, jose, whose argument calling this unconstitutional was in the enforcement angle, saying this gave private parties too much power to enact the law. because what thi...

Allowing a narrow path for abortion providers to challenge it. and tonight, the warning to the court from chief justice john roberts. terry moran has covered the court for years for us. >> reporter: todays ruling by the five most conservative justices on the court. the texas law, known as sb8, which has effectively banned almost all abortions in the state for 101 days, can remain in effect for now. sb-8 empowers private citizens, not government officials to enforce the abortion ban by bringing p...

What are the repercussions of this? >> as pete williams said, you heard him say it there, its very clear, that means that the providers, the people who are providing for reproductive services to women in texas can challenge the state, even though the state is saying, look, were not doing a thing. we just have a law that lets private citizens bring lawsuits. and what the supreme court was saying, and we heard it in the argument was, like, well, arent you really creating -- finding a clever chink ...

But todays opinion does allow a much narrower challenge to sb-8 to proceed against a few state officials in texas. justice sonia sotomayor, in an impassioned dissent, declaring the court should have put an end to this madness months ago. and warning, the court leaves all manner of constitutional rights more vulnerable than ever before to the great detriment of our constitution and our republic. and at the white house, press secretary jen psaki called on congress to act to enshrine the right to c...

Since state clerks process the lawsuits abortion clinics should stop them and then it was justice sotomayor with biting powerful language and heres what she said in part. she said the court should have put an end to this madness months ago before sb-8 went into effect t.failed to do so then and it fails again today. notably, this decision, this court, ana, not ruling on the underlining right to abortion. that issue is instead present in a case last week in a challenge in mississippi law that ban...

Soon as today. >> all right. so barbara, walk me through what you expect to see happen. so they now refile the suit. finding somebody to sue. this starts in district court? >> yeah. so they had already sued this one remaining defendant who -- we go back to the district court where the court was filed. a judge robert pitman who had the case before and demonstrated hostility to sb-8. i think its likely the judge will follow the law and enjoin the statute while the case makes its way through the co...

Sb 8. a spokesman for the attorney general saying today theyll continue to challenge this law in the lower courts. they say that it subverts the constitutionality of the womens right to choose. so this fight is continuing in other courts. but the point is that, at this point, this law stands. that is a big blow to these abortion providers here. >> jessica schneider, thanks so much. i want to bring in katie watson, a public interest lawyer. elie honig was an assistant u.s. attorney for new york...

The supreme court addresses issues, theyre likely to address that procedural issue before they get to the abortion law. just to refresh everyones memory, theres also the mississippi abortion case, which was argued two weeks ago. thats a separate case with many of the same issues at stake. >> okay. stand by, jeffrey toobin. i want to go to jessica schneider covering this decision from the supreme court. its early, but youve been reading through. what do we know? >> reporter: a bit of a mixed outc...

Not factor in at all? >> well, the justices deliberate in a black box. no one admitted to their conferences but the other justices. so no one actually knows what happens there. i think we all do know that the justices are susceptible to public opinion. they have to be because the court relies on its own legitimacy with the public in order to ensure that its decisions are on course. it is not like congress, not like the president, it cannot raise an army, it cannot withhold funds, all it has to m...

On the constitutionality of a pre-viability ban since roe v. wade. so, lets talk more about this. joining me to break all this down and what we can expect from those proceedings and the potential fallout is barbara mcquade, msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney in michigan, and joyce vance, msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney as well. the two are co-hosted of the podcast "sisters-in-law." we can think back a couple of months ago to sb-8, its been about three months or so since sb...