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Welcome back, everybody. so, the texas abortion bill is headed to the supreme court in a somewhat surprising decision. the court has ordered arguments on objections to the law from the department of justice and abortion rights groups, and they want it done very fast, setting the hearing date for november 1st to hear oral arguments just one week from monday. so let's talk about this. joyce vance joining me, msnbc legal analyst and former u.s. attorney. joyce, great to see you on this. so, i want to clear things up because i think there's some confusion over what they're actually going to be hea...

Before they finish working their way through the lower courts and it almost never moves this quickly but a decision on the fate of the texas law is very likely months away. so the court agreed to take up two challenges to the law known as sb-8 which has shut down abortions in the state but the court delayed acting on the biden administration's request to put the law on hold as the case plays out. they say the state cannot -- but then hand off enforcement to private lawsuits. the second case is the biden administration's challenge to the law. the court will decide whether the justice department...

Is pete williams. pete, the justice department tried to prevent this law from taking effect. so where does it stand now? >> the justice department hoped to keep the law from staying in effect. it was dead and then blocked and now back in effect. there's three moving parts here. first of all, the court is denying the federal government's request for a stay. that means sb-8 will remain in force. i would think this means it's going to remain in force for several more months while these cases work their way through the supreme court. the supreme court agreed to take on a fast track, a separate afe...

Struck down, sb 8, if it's found not constitutional. >> yes. in september, when this court had a case to say things about it, it wasn't a holding but they had a chance to say things about it, it was clear even the conservatives had concerns about the constitutionality, as well they should, it's just so overtly, ridiculously unconstitutional, that it also transcends partisan lines. it really isn't the right case for the court to overturn roe v. wade, i don't see that happening. i think one of the most important things, and pete touched on this, was the curious way the texas legislature enacted ...

Hears the third big abortion case of the term, the direct challenge to roe v. wade on mississippi's law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks. so i think, let's step back here and look as a practical matter, i think as a practical matter, sb 8, the texas law, is going to remain in effect for at least several more months while that's cases work their way through the supreme court, that's point one. point two, they'll hear two lawsuits on november 1. the first one is a state lawsuit filed by abortion providers in texas that challenges the law's constitutionality. so the court will consider that...