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The justice department says it deprives the federal government of the power to enforce that right and blocks delivery of federal health care, but legal experts say fighting the law won't be easy. >> the question is whether an order blocking the state from doing anything to enforce sba will also block private parties from enforcing sb-8, blocking others. >> reporter: they're eager to go to court and stop this law before other states get the same idea and try to do the same thing. jonathan? >> nbc's pete williams. thank you so much for that. still ahead, tomorrow marking 20 years since the sep...

Here, and just saying enjoin it all. >> it's a novel approach. i think that's warranted. what texas has done is surely unorthodox, and this is the best way to meet it. but the question here is whether inincluding as agents of texas, even those private parties who are authorized under the law to enforce sb-8, whether there's still the question of we don't know who exactly to enjoin if we do issue an injunction blocking this law. it's all well and good to say we're blocking, the, but the issue is how to stop the private parties from enforcing this law. >> seems like there's a high likelihood of ...

They were sleeping, and i didn't tell them, i just left, and i called them from the airport. >> reporter: as for six charter planes in mazar-i-sharif, we've learned tonight that they remain grounded. an organizer told us, a kabul flight may be good news for americans, but offer little hope to the afghan girls and women they have been trying to evacuate. norah. >> o'donnell: charlie d'agata, thank you. well, tonight, a major legal showdown over abortion is looming-- the u.s. justice department is suing texas over its strict new abortion law. attorney general merrick garland says the texas law i...

Abortion once embryonic cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant. the law makes no exception for rape, sex abuse, or incest. >> texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of texas. >> reporter: the texas law also allows any private citizen to sue someone who helps a woman get an abortion, which includes doctors, clinic staff, or even someone who drives a woman to a clinic. those who win a lawsuit can be awarded at least $10,000. >> the statute deputizes all private citizens, without any showing ...

Any moment now we're expecting attorney general merrick garland to announce plans for the doj to try to block the most restrictive abortion law in the country. the doj is challenging texas over the controversial sb-8 law. it bans a woman from getting an abortion after approximately six weeks. abortion rights activists have been pressuring the biden administration to do something after the supreme court let the law go goo effect. joining us is a doctor from gulf coast, texas. he is a plaintiff in the federal suit to overturn the law and he is at the white house to meet with vice president harri...