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Long standing question for nato. if they were open, we would not have to convince the alliance for 20 days to close the skies over ukraine. >> well, i can understand president zelenskyy's desire. the fact remain that ukraine is not a member of nato and that means it is not covered by article 5 which is the provision of the nato alliance which says an attack against one will be an attack against all. i also understand his continued request for nato to establish a no fly zone. nato's probably correct in not doing so because that would have relatively marginal benefit and high risk. the marginal ...

This was a bedrock issue for conservatives, this standing question, and i also think it says something about chief justice roberts that he was able to hold in that majority, two trump appointees, amy coney barrett and brett kavanaugh. >> the unanimity we saw in both the asa case and the human rights case is surprising and perhaps a little deceptive. as pete suggests, the court did not reach the merits of that case. i imagine if they did reach the merits, we would see a more traditional fractioning. in the case where we had a unanimous opinion to allow catholic social services to continue to ve...

You can't say as a state like texas, hey, i don't like it, let us in, let's relitigate the whole thing. >> ari, help us understand this for viewers who are non-lawyers. there are basically three pieces to this case. there was the standing question, whether texas was able to show injury here as you're talking about, there was the question of the individual mandate itself and the constitutionality, and the severability. it sound ts like it's the standing issue that has hung up this particular case? >> yeah. you have to get through that door number one before you even get to the other two things ...

>> pete, can you help me understand something here? i know you will tell me if i'm wrong. i know you will put it into plain english. given the way that the justices have written this decision, is it plausible that there may be a case that comes forward on the affordable care act again that could make its way to the supreme court that would get a ruling on the merits? >> well, theoretically possible, yes. some other attack on obamacare. it has been -- there's been several challenges that have come through the courts on the individual mandate unconstitutional, on it originated in the wrong part ...