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Reporting, in his 113-page ruling, robert pitman, a federal district court judge in austin sided with the biden administration, which had sued to halt a law that has changed the landscape of the abortion fight and further fueled the national debate over whether abortion will remain legal across this country. judge pitman called out the law, sb8, and deputizes private citizens to sue anyone helping a woman get an abortion. from his searing opinion, quote, a persons right under the constitution to...

Ruling u.s. district judge robert pittman wrote, quote a persons right under the constitution to choose to obtain an abortion proud to fight viability as well established. fully aware the depriving its citizens of this right by direct state action would be fragrantly unconstitutional, the state contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme, to do just that. texas has already appealed this federal judges order, to one of the nations most conservative appellate courts. also tonight w...

U.s. supreme court. that said, what happens in the district court very important. enormous win for the biden administration. enormous blow for the texas law here. >> so then the judge directly addressed this novel enforcement scheme, which thats one of the things that made it difficult, right, for getting around the enforcement of it. individual citizens empowered to go after abortion providers and others who help women get abortions. what did he say about that? >> when you read this, it is stri...

Appointee, he saw through what texas was trying to do and writes this in part, fully aware that depriving its citizens of this right by direct state action would be flagrantly unconstitutional, meaning the right to abortion, the state contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme to do just that. but the judge went on to note the reality on the ground here for women in texas is that women are still getting abortions. theyre just not getting them in texas. women who have the means a...

113-page opinion and order tonight, texas federal judge robert pittman says, a persons right under the constitution to choose to obtain an abortion prior to fetal viability is well established. fully aware that deprives its citizens of this right by direct state action would be fragrantly unconstitutional, the state contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme to do just that. judge pittman issued an injunction barring the enforcement of the new texas law saying it is ordered that...

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On October 1, 2021, Nevada became the latest of a small but growing number of states extending regulatory oversight of healthcare transactions involving physician practices. Over the...

Collect, and produce documents detailed in the ags subpoenas while the entire company awaits trial. im curious how you think this all relates. because the former president has seemed more agitated than usual based on the indications we have. >> well, i think what you see and barbara could probably really get into this, the parsing here, because its a lot of fun. state action versus federal action. youre a corporation. its not just about you. its corporate documents. its shareholders. and yeah, t...

Learned from that reporting really good report from the "wall street journal" there were content moderation errors even for left wing politicians including elizabeth warren. i that was something that i learned from that reporting that not all of this was nefarious. some it was bungled mismanagement. the part that stood out to me most, to be clear, is that mark zuckerberg and sheryl sandberg personally make the calls, especially for this elite group as to what gets taken down and what doesnt. the...

This law from going into effect because of this clever public vigilante enforcement mechanism. we cant enjoin all of these people from enforcing the law. i disagree with that legally. i think as a practical matter, and doj points that out in their lawsuit, that when you create these private vigilantes thats actually a form of state action and you are using the courts to go ahead and try and get around roe. it is possible to block that law from going into effect. so i guess to answer your questio...