decide quickly. that s what it is supposed to be for. there is no emergency here. planned parenthood was a 34-year-old law. there was no emergency reason for them to throw out. for them to throw out that law because they don t know the law. they are the supreme court. we have them so they can make these decisions. they were like, this is too complicated. we will throw away 50 years of law. that is cowardice. that s the court trying to do something while avoiding the new york times headline, supreme court overturns roe versus wade. that s what they were trying to get away. texas abortion law weakens that s what they wanted people to say, not the truth, which is that roe versus wade is dead letter law if texas and iowa and florida and missouri and arkansas and indiana can just
it or not, that scares me. if the court is willing to do that, where do we go from here if we don t expand the court? i can t think of what else we do. i think this is a critical issue. it s an issue that democrats should have been banging the drum on for last 20 years. they never did. we saw the democratic national convention last summer. they talked all about the violence against women act, they talked about the voting rights act and immigration. no one said anything that those measures had been gutted. we have to take the court seriously. we are in a moment, we have the senate by just a hair s breadth. we need to be moving. we need to put judges on the bench. the trump administration did zero on domestic policy except put judges on the bench. they did it at every level. they are stacked now to essentially suborn this and
support a ban on abortion rights. it s like look at the polls. people are in the middle. abortion should be legal sometimes but illegal other times. that s the law now. that s the actual law right now. if people would look at it. republicans can t overturn the laws through popular votes. so they use this is why mcconnell stole a seat from barack obama. why they pushed forward an alleged report and rapists who like beer. this is why they have tried to control the courts. now we are as churchill might say or al gore, we are living in a time of consequences. our fundamental inaction and inability to stop republicans from taking over the court now has consequences on the american people and on our rights as citizens. what scares me is that
procedural questions. they blocked california s in-home gathering restrictions on religious liberty grounds. the fact that the court lacked the power to issue the order in question. it feels in a lot of ways like the court is using the shadow docket the way that republicans use these local government orders and these laws to try to get through legislation like what they call the sue thy neighbor bill, what they can t get by asking the majority. they just sneak it through in sneaky ways. is that a wrong way to look at it? they are cowards. let s not forget the dripping, flaming cowardice of not being able to sign your name to the opinion, ripping away 50 years of constitutional protection. the shadow docket is supposed to be for emergencies. aliens come to earth and biden is like, we should stop them. the court is it like, we have to
it s the better pr strategy. you had thoughts on twitter saying you were on meet the press to respond to that. respond. i appreciate the opportunity to say that that take is absolutely absurd. really has no business being broadcast on mainstream television. this was a procedural ruling. that s correct. but they have substantive implications. this ruling effectively gut away with three decades of supreme court precedent. roe is effectively dead in texas. it is, as you say, working on the shadow docket. the court can do things it would not be able to do on merits docket where there s more attention. the silver lining of this entire week, which has been absolutely insane in terms of legal developments, is that now at least the public has some inclination about what happen