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Soon as today. >> all right. so barbara, walk me through what you expect to see happen. so they now refile the suit. finding somebody to sue. this starts in district court? >> yeah. so they had already sued this one remaining defendant who -- we go back to the district court where the court was filed. a judge robert pitman who had the case before and demonstrated hostility to sb-8. i think it's likely the judge will follow the law and enjoin the statute while the case makes its way through the courts. they'll work through it there. the circuits will send it back to the supreme court. the key m...

Sb 8. a spokesman for the attorney general saying today they'll continue to challenge this law in the lower courts. they say that it subverts the constitutionality of the women's right to choose. so this fight is continuing in other courts. but the point is that, at this point, this law stands. that is a big blow to these abortion providers here. >> jessica schneider, thanks so much. i want to bring in katie watson, a public interest lawyer. elie honig was an assistant u.s. attorney for new york's southern district. nice to see you both. elie, your reaction to the opinion by the supreme cour...

The supreme court addresses issues, they're likely to address that procedural issue before they get to the abortion law. just to refresh everyone's memory, there's also the mississippi abortion case, which was argued two weeks ago. that's a separate case with many of the same issues at stake. >> okay. stand by, jeffrey toobin. i want to go to jessica schneider covering this decision from the supreme court. it's early, but you've been reading through. what do we know? >> reporter: a bit of a mixed outcome here, jim and erica. abortion providers can move forward with their lawsuit to attempt to ...

Not factor in at all? >> well, the justices deliberate in a black box. no one admitted to their conferences but the other justices. so no one actually knows what happens there. i think we all do know that the justices are susceptible to public opinion. they have to be because the court relies on its own legitimacy with the public in order to ensure that its decisions are on course. it is not like congress, not like the president, it cannot raise an army, it cannot withhold funds, all it has to make us obey with the decisions is its own legitimacy. they were not partisan, they were not partisan...

On the constitutionality of a pre-viability ban since roe v. wade. so, let's talk more about this. joining me to break all this down and what we can expect from those proceedings and the potential fallout is barbara mcquade, msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney in michigan, and joyce vance, msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney as well. the two are co-hosted of the podcast "sisters-in-law." we can think back a couple of months ago to sb-8, it's been about three months or so since sb-8 took effect and when we were having the conversation then, we kept talking about mississippi an...