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On vigilanteism and finding a way to distinguish it from the sb-8 case. if one thing the trump era brought us it is the absence of shame. mitch mcconnell did it when he refused to vote on merrick garland and coasted through when it was time to bring in amy coney barrett. there is no shame in hypocrisy. i think the court will see gun rights as a very different right. this one is actually expressed this the text of the constitution, as opposed to abortion rights, which are merely implied. they will find a tiny grain on which to distinguish it because they have no integrity. >> barb ration you ar...

Weapons, ghost gun kits, we're going to come after you with lawsuits. >> well, it's brilliant and it makes the point that the supreme court absolutely refused to do what it should have done, which is to strike down the decision that allowed sb 8, through which texas gave vigilantes the ability to sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion. justice sotomayor helped make the case over and over again how bad that action was for the supreme court. what's good for the goose is good for the gander and i

And in mississippi where there's only one abortion clinic that remains, the majority of their patients happen to be black women. it's very clear that in laws such as this that we've seen in texas, sb 8, the mississippi law, that these are laws that have a discriminatory impact against black women. it's a disparate impact against them. we've seen in texas with people leaving to california and elsewhere, and sure there have been abortion funds that have helped to underwrite that sum for people who are of the most stratified means -- but in mississippi where the death rates are already high for b...

In for procedures, and low-income women without the means to travel have been left with few options. liberal-leaning justice sonia sotomayor slammed the supreme court's decision, saying the court should have put an end to this madness months ago. my disagreement with the court runs far deeper than a quibble over how many defendants these petitioners may sue. the dispute is over whether states may nullify federal constitutional rights by employing schemes like the one at hand. abortion rights advocates are vowing to keep fighting even though they say they've only been left with a shred of a cas...

General ken paxton who were staunch advocates when this law went into effect on october 1st. we haven't heard from them just yet, but they will be weighing in. this has become a highly contentious issue here in the state of texas. sb-8, very polarizing across the entire state. after it went into effect back if early september, an abortion rights group did a study across the state and found that abortions fell by about 50%. and just down the road from us in ft. worth, texas, there was a clinic that averaged about 60-plus procedures every day. that number dropped to 11. that is the impact of thi...