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Week which has been absolutely insane in terms of legal developments is that now the public has some inclination about what happens on the shadow docket. this is supposed to be something for expedited, time senitive appeals it's being used to get the benefit without full briefing and the explanation that in a democracy, the public deserves. >> you've seep a will the of responses. you have lyft and uber will cover legal fees for drivers. they will donate a million dollars to planned parenthood. lyft drivers can be sued because they took a woman to a clinic. it's insane to think about. i can rem...

Well. the law banning abortions virtually banning them six weeks into pregnancy provides no exceptions for rape or incest and empowers citizens to enforce the law via civil lawsuits awarded with $10,000 bounties if they succeed and no penalty costs if they don't. this makes it harder to challenge a law rather than a law enforced by the state. conservative lawmakers in south dakota and florida are working on a blueprint for copycat measures. they've sparked hearings on the texas law and on emergency rulings made by the justices without any oral arguments. this is what's known as the shadow dock...

Rush to copycat this, south dakota and florida who are working on legislation like this because that enforcement piece while it seems so kind of wild and unlike anything we've seen before, that's actually what allows this to go forward in a way that a case like a bill like what was done in mississippi which really puts roe versus wade right into question at the top of their argument, that could actually be struck down by the supreme court whereas this because it puts the enforcement not in the hands of the state, but in the hands of private citizens has somewhat of a workaround. we didn't get ...

This is what steve wrote about this what most people don't know much about. the ruling in the texas case justified the non-intervention by flagging procedural questions. they reached out to block california's inhome gathering restrictions. the fact that the court lacked the power to issue the order in question. it feels, in a lot of ways, like the court is using the shadow docket the way that republicans use these local government orders and these sort of laws to get through this legislation like what they are calling the sue thy neighbor bill in texas. what they can't by asking the majority. ...

Effectively reviewing the law. i suspect it proves too much. it does too much and as people begin to contemplate the consequences whether or not this could be used, for instance, to advance liberal aims in blue states that full review of this bill would give texas a less encouraging result than this temporary one that they've gotten from the shadow docket so far. >> and cecile, wendy davis, filibustered in the texas legislature in 2013, to block a different abortion bill. her fight did galvanize abortion rights activists and also made a lot of clinics close. it was already hard to get procedur...