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3 of thomas' concurrence, that's where it was. no one joined that, but thomas is clearly saying did -- and he used the word duty, we have a duty as an institution to reassess all of these they're called substantive due process rights but basically contraception, same-sex marriage marriage, you could put interracial marriage. you wrote a book on justice ginsburg, we will remember how she had argued that roe, she wasn't a justice yet, should have been decided on equal protection grounds, not on privacy grounds like griswold and she warned -- and people have twisted her words and they are wrong w...

Court said this law can remain on the books while the legal challenges are continuing. this is a very big deal. you outlined what the law does, once a fetal heart beat is detected, at a point when most women don't even know they're pregnant, it is already led to so many women in texas going to other states. and other states enforcing -- trying to enforce copycat laws. now, the next action should come from the department of justice, which has taken a very urgent stand on this from the beginning saying, first of all, this violates the supremacy clause. we should be able to come in and challenge ...

Schedule, depositions, discovers rye. >> and the maryland judge is judging it from a different point of view, is he not, going after the question of whether this was racially motivated? that's a whole nother line of argument. >> what happened in the maryland case is a trove of new documents came to light and they said this shows it was politically motivated on equal protection grounds. and the supreme court hadn't ruled squarely on equal prek. so that avenue could continue. >> could be another challenge to the supreme court? >> and another injunction and that's what hurts the administration he...

The census would benefit republicans and white votes. do you agree? >> i think that certainly his story was accurate in asking that since question, that it would benefit the g.o.p. because it would allow them to draw the districts a certain way. and to calculate federal funding a certain way. i think the problem with his study was that while he was still alive he contacted the administration and told them they needed to add this question. any contact of the census bureau. when that evidence came out, that was a violation of equal protection. i do think that if you have the question, obviously ...

The question, adding citizenship to the question, violating equal protection of immigrants and minorities. it essentially was a discriminatory question. the rationale that the administration through wilbur ross had given, was to protect rights under the voting rights act. the court found that it was very pretextual, that it was done for discriminatory purposes, and roberts interestingly ruled with the other four liberals on the court saying it violated the equal protection clause of the constitution to avoid giving minorities and other disenfranchised groups equal access to health care, to edu...