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Department made last week when it sued texas to prohibit enforcement of the contentious new law. the doj also addressed a sinister part of the law, the part that allows texas citizens to become vigilantes and take legal action against anyone performing or, quote unquote, aiding and abetting an abortion. from the court filing. quote, texas devised an unprecedented scheme that seeks to deny women and providers the ability to challenge sb-8 in federal court. this attempt to shield a plainly unconstitutional law from review cannot stand. two weeks ago the supreme court refused to block texas' law,...

>> reporter: yeah, stephanie, new day, new challenge. what the supreme court did not intervene on was a challenge from advocates, abortion rights advocates in texas that challenged s.b. 8 and when the supreme court ruled, they said they would consider future challenges if they answered certain procedural questions. now it's the justice department's turn. as we know, last week they started their own civil lawsuit in the western district of texas challenging the law. now they're asking that same district for an emergency stay to try to stop this law right where it is, allow these providers to pr...

>> this judge already ruled against texas once. this is a move by the department of justice. they want this law blocked now immediately. they've already sued, but they want these clinics to be able now to come back and resume performing this procedure. keep in mind as you and i have talked about, this law was written in a way to make it really hard to block. that was the whole point. and the department of justice has said, look, this is a scheme and it's meant to avoid judicial review. here's what they wrote in papers last night. there can be no dispute that sb-8 is contrary to government, ban...

The department of justice filed a civil suit challenging texas over its controversial new abortion law. attorney general merrick garland argued that the law is unconstitutional and described it as a statutory scheme. last week the supreme court declined to issue an injunction against this law, sb 8. it's also known as the texas heartbreak act. justice stephen breyer called that decision, quote, very, very, very wrong. that ruling was not on the constitutionality of the law. it allowed the law to stand while the legal battles around it continued. sb 8 is unique. it's designed to keep enforcemen...

Legislation, whether it's sb 8, the abortion bill or the critical race theory bill that was bogus, more and more texans are going against what the republican party stands for here in the state and i think they will see that in the 2022 elections. >> so ari, what does it say about republican lawmakers that are taking this bill and introducing it, something that caught my attention that was reported by "the new york times" was that the state republican lawmaker admitted that he had not read the bill and this is how we got into that rabbit hole if he didn't read the bill, who created it? what doe...