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They have stayed effectively, the implementation of this ruling for 14 days to give trump the chance to appeal this to the united states supreme court, what do you think will happen there, and what will happen in terms of the timing and how the pace of this has been handled thus far. obviously, at the end of the road, the documents are either going to get handed over or they're not. what do you make of the potential time line, if and when he appeals it up to the supreme court. >> it could be that it goes in its normal course and takes many months to shake out. the law is quite clear here, it's...

That may embolden some of the people calling for expansion of the court. what the report really does it lay out in a very comprehensive way the arguments on both sides of that issue, as well as another issue on term limits for the justices. and explore some of the complications and the difficulties of making these changes, but also suggest ways that they could be done. so, for example, on term limits, it lays out a way to phase them in. whereas, you would have existing justices who are not term limits, how do you make transition. it gets into that. so, the report is certainly something that's ...

Or is this, instead, a political dispute between the executive branch and the legislative branch? that signals to me a strong legal position for the legislative branch here for the production of these documents. i think, even aside from that, this claim of executive privilege is very weak in this instance. it is the sitting president who possesses the executive privilege with the weight to assert. donald trump can give his recommendation. but because joe biden has already waived it, i think it is a strong and likely result that we will see the committee get those documents. >> barbara, if this...

Justices have revealed another problem with the court’s “shadow docket.”

Be in place blocking texas people from getting abortions while the litigation over the constitutionality is ongoing and as melissa says it presents the court with a crisis because the issue is whether states like texas can find a sneaky way around the rule of law. what this case says to the supreme court is you can't review our law, supreme court. it might be flagrantly unconstitutional but it is within bounds for us in texas to do what we want to do and the supreme court had a first crack of dealing with this issue when the cases came up on the shadow docket and the supreme court sort of thre...