today we fulfill that duty by filing the lawsuit i have just described. >> this action from the biden justice department is described by "the wall street journal" today as certain to set off a federal versus state clash over the future of abortion rights. it follows a promise last week from president biden for a whole of government response to the supreme court's order allowing the texas law to stand as well as mounting pressure from his own party for urgent steps. ag garland's actions comes as the white house takes a more strident posture against texas governor abbott and his absurd public pronouncements about exceptions for rape being unnecessary in texas because he will eliminate rapists. >> well, if governor abbott has a means of eliminating all rapists or all rape from the united states, then there would be bipartisan support for that. but given there has never in the history of the country, in the