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Argument did not go well for texas today. if i'm having to read the tea leaves, i would think that the law, the texas law, will be enjoined, which means it will be temporarily stopped and then it will go to the court of appeals for the fifth circuit and we'll see what they do, and then it will go to the supreme court, and it's going to go to the supreme court again on a rushed basis, perhaps again the shadow docket, and at a really unusual time. justice kavanaugh just tested positive for covid. the justices were all meeting in a conference room earlier this week to decide what cases they're go...

Power that it has as the highest court in the land, and remember that back in february 2020, actually, justice sotomayor raised this concern in a different context. this was the public charge rule, a rule of the trump administration that said if you're legally able to be in the united states, we might still keep you out if we think you might end up on welfare benefits. but the bottom line is it was a use of this shadow docket in a way that she said indicated some concerns about not allowing the appellate process to play out and putting too much of the weight of the administration of the federa...

The supreme court fell for in its shadow docket. you know, they said, well, the state's not actually enforcing the law. private citizens are. so, we got to wait for a private citizen to enforce the law. even though we all knew the results of what the supreme court decision would be there, which is a chilling effect on abortions. they've, you know, almost stopped in the state of texas because nobody wants to take that kind of legal risk. so, today, the justice department came in and said, they're kind of gap fillers and they said, yo, wait a minute, we can enforce the law, and basically, i mean...

The middle of the night without a hearing causing critics to slam the action as part of the court's so-called shadow docket. a new gallup poll conducted right after shows a plummeting approval rate of 40%. the lowest in 20 years. the liberal justices lashed out with stinging dissents when the decision came down. some have spoken out since then. off camera and on. justice sotomayor was blunt about what she thinks lies ahead. there's going to be a lot of disappointment in the law. a huge amount. look at me. look at my dissents. justice stephen breyer who had been pushed by progressives to retire...

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