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Say who is voting, who is doing the position that uses shadow docket. there is nothing. there is no accountability, they hope. but in this case, we [inaudible] >> 48 i cant help but notice is not 50. that seems to me -- that is sort of the issue? right you have the filibuster, right before you be the filibuster, you cant beat 52 votes with 48 and i wonder if this changes the calculation of your senate colleagues? >> i hope so, because what -- if you do not have to have 60 votes to codify, we wil...

That was the correct one. there was no harm here yet. >> so thats a conservative activist pretending that he is not seeing but happen because it is the better pr strategy. yet some thoughts on twitter is that you wish that you could respond to. that you are here to respond now. >> i appreciate the opportunity to say forthrightly to say that that is absolutely absurd and really has no business being broadcast on mainstream television. this was a procedural ruling, that is absolutely correct. but ...

Views on abortion can be, they are not complicated in terms of how horrible this lies. senate judiciary committee is going to examine the texas abortion ban -- mazie hirono is a member of this committee and she joins me now. senator, what is the agenda for the senate democrats to deal with this law? >> one of the things theyre gonna do is have a hearing on the supreme courts abuse of power by abusing the was shadow docket. im gonna use the word abuse because that is exactly what is going on. >> ...

And substantive irregularities to say the least about this. this comes out of the courts so-called shadow docket. it was not the regular doctket, and justice alito was on the watch and clearly wanted to let it go through. the three liberals and justice roberts dissented from it. whats going on is outrageous because its clear that the texas state law is in direct collision with roe v. wade and planned parenthood v. casey. roe v. wade, you remember, had the trimester framework. but the casey decis...

All. this is a procedural ruling that clearly was the correct one. theres no harm here yet. >> thats a conservative activist pretending hes not seeing what happens because its the better pr strategy. you had some thoughts said you wish you had been on "meet the press" to respond to that. you can respond. >> i appreciate the opportunity to say that take is absurd and really has no business being broadcast on mainstream television. this was a procedural ruling. that is correct but procedural rulin...

Week which has been absolutely insane in terms of legal developments is that now the public has some inclination about what happens on the shadow docket. this is supposed to be something for expedited, time senitive appeals its being used to get the benefit without full briefing and the explanation that in a democracy, the public deserves. >> youve seep a will the of responses. you have lyft and uber will cover legal fees for drivers. they will donate a million dollars to planned parenthood. lyf...

Well. the law banning abortions virtually banning them six weeks into pregnancy provides no exceptions for rape or incest and empowers citizens to enforce the law via civil lawsuits awarded with $10,000 bounties if they succeed and no penalty costs if they dont. this makes it harder to challenge a law rather than a law enforced by the state. conservative lawmakers in south dakota and florida are working on a blueprint for copycat measures. theyve sparked hearings on the texas law and on emergenc...

Rush to copycat this, south dakota and florida who are working on legislation like this because that enforcement piece while it seems so kind of wild and unlike anything weve seen before, thats actually what allows this to go forward in a way that a case like a bill like what was done in mississippi which really puts roe versus wade right into question at the top of their argument, that could actually be struck down by the supreme court whereas this because it puts the enforcement not in the han...

This is what steve wrote about this what most people dont know much about. the ruling in the texas case justified the non-intervention by flagging procedural questions. they reached out to block californias inhome gathering restrictions. the fact that the court lacked the power to issue the order in question. it feels, in a lot of ways, like the court is using the shadow docket the way that republicans use these local government orders and these sort of laws to get through this legislation like ...

Effectively reviewing the law. i suspect it proves too much. it does too much and as people begin to contemplate the consequences whether or not this could be used, for instance, to advance liberal aims in blue states that full review of this bill would give texas a less encouraging result than this temporary one that theyve gotten from the shadow docket so far. >> and cecile, wendy davis, filibustered in the texas legislature in 2013, to block a different abortion bill. her fight did galvanize ...