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Where until very recently, only emergencies lived, suddenly in the age of covid, in the age of voting, rates in the age of the death penalty, and perform presumably the age of unconstitutional abortion restrictions, everything is happening on the shadow docket, it's happening on an briefed on argued cases, we have no idea whether the core is going to as you said before, even issue an order, it could be a two sentence order. there could be dissents. we actually don't know what we are waiting for at this point. we are waiting for a thing, that is going to happen in the middle of the night, in a ...

Roberts said this was unprecedented. he decented. i think what you're seeing with the court is that usually they act really, really quickly in these kinds of emergency petitions known as the shadow docket. if they think the issue is important. here they dallied, kept us waiting for 24 hours. in the meantime, people in texas are not able to really knowing what the law is. finally at midnight when justice alito writes, he says, while this is so confusing and so technical, let's let the law go into place opposed to what the supreme court normally does is have a full briefing and have oral argumen...

Philosophically because there's agents who control their own bodies and they're not subject to this whole thing another bizarre sort of devious aspects of the law thank you so much. now i want to turn to the justice correspondent of the nation, offer of allow me to to tort, a black eyes guide to the constitution. and dahlia, the senior editor and correspondent for, slate her latest piece is titled, to real ways to answer and texas abortion law. let's start with that dalia, in terms of what's the response here is, and should be, and this is a mystery with the court is doing because they said no...

Again. >> this is a road map for how they can do it which is why i say as of this moment 7:05 eastern time today roe versus wade has been up ended in texas, jeffrey. i'm curious because the supreme court did not step in overnight. and they could have. and as i said to laura jarrett before, doing nothing was doing something here. this is a statement. how am i supposed to read this from the supreme court overnight? >> i think you are supposed to read it as doom is coming for roe v. wade. now, entirely separate from this texas case, there is a mississippi case in the traditional manner of supreme...

All right. the court is out to lunch. the court is in yolo mode. they are no longer bound by constitutional strictures. they don't care about the 15th amendment. they don't care about the voting rights act. they don't care about the separation of powers. they are doing this all on the shadow docket. remember, people, the court isn't even in session right now. they don't come back until october. they did this for fun to kick people out on to the streets. at some point democrats have to do something, as representative castro well knows. there is a bill in congress right now supported by mondaire...