is now the seventh state since the big lie and the violent attempted coup on january 6. this is the seventh state that has passed an omnibus law to make voting harder. yes, we can keep going to court in state after state after state, and we are, because we believe these laws violate the constitution and the voting rights act, but boy, it would sure be better if congress would pass the for the people act, the john lewis voting rights advancement act and put in place a structure that would simply shut down these terrible suppression efforts. in terms of texas in the news right now, obviously the texas abortion ban being allowed to go into effect last week by the supreme court continues to be a huge new story in the country. the texas governor making news on that today with bizarre comments about how his plan for rape victims being forced to bear their rapist s child under the new law is something he ll take care of because he s going to eliminate rape in texas. texas is sort of positio
passed each other at the threshold, right? one country leaving the century going backwards, the other one on its way in. nobody is quite sure what the biden administration is going to do, or what they can do, especially as red states, republican-controlled states, gear up to xerox the texas bill and put their own bans in place. president biden did pledge a whole of government approach to try to protect women s constitutional rights. attorney general merrick garland said yesterday the doj is reviewing its options, but nobody knows quite sure what they ll do. professor lawrence tribe has some pointed advice there as well. joining us now is professor lawrence tribe who co-wrote an op-ed in the boston globe today about the supreme court s 1982 decision in the grendel s den case. he argued that and won. he argues today it could upend texas new abortion law. professor tribe is an emeritus
0 that is all in for this tuesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. happy to join you this hour. president biden was in new york and of hurricane ida hitting just those two states. that extreme flash flooding that tore through the most populated part of the country last wednesday night, president biden today meeting with local officials and local residents about the ongoing cleanup efforts there. president biden was in louisiana on friday where 400,000 americans are now in their second week without power amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions, conditions that get more and more challenging with each day passing with the power still not returned. reviewing the damage today, president biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. climb change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy. the threat is here. it s not going to get any better. the storms are