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To come. >> and has an effect, you hear of women there, clinics complying already. so they have to leave the state, in effect, to get an abortion. the court has agreed to take -- this is an unusual case they do on their shadow docket. they didn't hear arguments, et cetera, but they agreed to take up a mississippi law, 15-week is the limit there. is that where we hear most likely a more comprehensive supreme court decision on the future of roe v. wade? >> reporter: well, that's what we think, right. today in texas, before we even get to the mississippi law, it is almost impossible to get an abo...

Unusual. this case was proceeding in federal district court in texas, when the fifth circuit strip the district court judge. the trial judge of any ability to proceed on a motion that would have suspended and stayed the statute to keep it from going into effect today. that's how i got as part of their shadow docket. as an emergency appeal. and the shadow docket is actually a process where cases are decided without full briefing, and full argument. in this situation, the court actually is not considering the substance of the statute. and these provisions that you identify, that for instance per...

Fortify this full frontal assault on the precedent of "roe" and so there is a number of things that we do know. certainly, we did hear from the former president himself that he did have an abortion litmus test for the justices, and that he installed all three justices on to the court. so this is no big secret, and even though, even chief justice john g. roberts when he rejected the idea that this should be decided on the shadow docket as dahlia explained, he, himself, he has expressed the view that "roe v. wade" was wrongly decided so i think very likely six votes to overturn it, and that is t...

I think still somehow we should get some kind of order with the justices and they may explain their thinking here a little bit. that could still come today. they've been under some pressure in recent years for increasingly deciding big issues on the shadow docket, cases that come up on an emergency basis, ruled on late at night and the justices really don't explain their think ing. i think this inaction will prompt some of the justices, maybe the chief, maybe bret kavanaugh to want to explain their thinking a little bit. right now they're waiting and seeing and the law is in effect. >> i'm goi...

Abortions for as you heard jeffrey say for many woman member during the time they don't even know they're pregnant. it would effectively out law 85% of abortions in texas. talk to me about what you think and whatpponents if there are a? >> you can't over state this enough. this would allow, if the supreme court decides to allow this to go into effect at midnight central time, they could essentially overturn roe v wade in a state without lifting a finger, without saying a word on a shadow docket, not even addressing it, hearing an oral argument that stood the test of time for decades and decade...