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They have stayed effectively, the implementation of this ruling for 14 days to give trump the chance to appeal this to the united states supreme court, what do you think will happen there, and what will happen in terms of the timing and how the pace of this has been handled thus far. obviously, at the end of the road, the documents are either going to get handed over or theyre not. what do you make of the potential time line, if and when he appeals it up to the supreme court. >> it could be that...

That may embolden some of the people calling for expansion of the court. what the report really does it lay out in a very comprehensive way the arguments on both sides of that issue, as well as another issue on term limits for the justices. and explore some of the complications and the difficulties of making these changes, but also suggest ways that they could be done. so, for example, on term limits, it lays out a way to phase them in. whereas, you would have existing justices who are not term ...

Or is this, instead, a political dispute between the executive branch and the legislative branch? that signals to me a strong legal position for the legislative branch here for the production of these documents. i think, even aside from that, this claim of executive privilege is very weak in this instance. it is the sitting president who possesses the executive privilege with the weight to assert. donald trump can give his recommendation. but because joe biden has already waived it, i think it i...

Justices have revealed another problem with the court’s “shadow docket.”

Be in place blocking texas people from getting abortions while the litigation over the constitutionality is ongoing and as melissa says it presents the court with a crisis because the issue is whether states like texas can find a sneaky way around the rule of law. what this case says to the supreme court is you cant review our law, supreme court. it might be flagrantly unconstitutional but it is within bounds for us in texas to do what we want to do and the supreme court had a first crack of dea...

Its down ten points in september from july. so, since they using the shadow docket let this near total ban in abortions in texas. 85% of all abortions happen after six weeks of pregnancy because most women have no idea theyre pregnant at six weeks of pregnancy. the supreme court lost ten points. i wonder if you think that plays into anything from the tone, to the tenor, to anything. >> im not sure that polling would move them, but i certainly think they heard the criticism, especially over their...

Constitutional. this is still preliminary skirmishing over whether or not the law should be enjoined. the first time it reached the supreme court late at night on their shadow docket, they said were going to permit this law to stay in effect because texas is using this perplexing situation involving vigilante justice to enforce the law and theres no one that we, the supreme court, have the power to enjoin. thats a silly, disingeneral would you say argument, but doj comes back and this is whats d...

It only proves his point. alitos speech encapsuated the right wing majority that wants to act poitically to every directive without scrutiny, criticism or protest. and this all comes as president bid bidens commission is ex spejted to release the political report tomorrow. joining me is staff writer for "the atlantic." always great to talk to you. just looking at the way that these shadow docket cases have gone down, the trump administration won 21 out of 48 cases. a 70% success rate. lets look ...

Learning more than they ever hoped to, but as you pointed out this is not en a conversation about the merits of the case, whether or not it is constitutional or not. this is just a preliminary skirmish on whether or not the law gets to stay in effect. or whether or not it is blocked, while all of the litigation over the merits of the law is under way. that is the decision that is now teed up for the fifth circuit whether or not the statute gets joined during the litigancy. they will take the app...

Happening to women in texas now, today, because of the decision by the united states supreme court through their shadow docket, which despite joyce explaining it to me no fewer than 11 times, i barely understand. bg works two jobs. 55 to 60 hours weekly. shell soon graduate from college and has a job offer in engineering, which she sees as a path out of poverty. she said shes not emotionally or financially prepared to f a child because shes a primary provider. one more. a 13-year-old patient had...