and squarely. you could have very easily kept your mouth shut not said anything, gone along, was all of it worth it? putting it all on the line for the truth? the answer is absolutely it was worth it. the lieutenant governor found himself among the few to speak the truth. he was not alone. disgusted by threats his election workers were getting from misled trump supporters gabe sterling was a vocal critic of the public lies. i remember a young guy was taking the trash out and all the people swarm around and say, you are going to prison. you are going to prison. he is a warehouse guy. i mean, nobody should have to go through that. good afternoon. on december 1st, 2020, sterling gave a blistering warning.
rights, and to say, oh, we ve never seen this before, so we can t do anything about it, i guess i just don t understand the argument. melissa, you clerked for judge sotomayor when she was a judge before she was a justice. you know her so well, and she s so passionate on this as a proponent of abortion rights, of choice. so she may have allies now in this whole argument about what texas did because they also have another way, of course, on december 1st, they re going to be hearing the mississippi case. that s where they may come down and actually overturn roe. i think that last snippet was from justice kagan, and she really brought home the fact that this is not about some narrow procedural issues regarding these two cases but a broader existential question for this court, whether or not the
court is going to allow rogue states like texas to blatantly defy extent constitutional precedent, in the same way we saw the states defying brown versus board of education, and cooper versus aaron was mentioned repeatedly this morning in oral arguments. so the court seems to understand that the very legitimacy of the court as an institution is in play here and justice kagan underscored that, so did justice sotomayor. of course coming down the pike as you suggest, there is this question of the oral argument on december 1st in the dobbs case. that will allow the court to take up the broader substantive issue and, of course, these two cases can t be seen in isolation. they very much relate to one another, a decision on roe in dobbs will certainly have implications for what the court has to do in sb8 substantively. and to you here, i just i
and if they are opponents of roe v. wade on that court they ll get another chance when the mississippi law comes up. that s right. on december 1st, the court will hear a much more direct challenge to roe v. wade. it has the mississippi abortion ban and that could take us back to before 1973 when congress when the court said women had a fundamental right to end a pregnancy. in fact, many court observers think that s going to happen. all right. joan, thank you. next one cnn correspondent s personal battle. it involves a disease that impacts so many young children. stay with us. so you don t lose sight of the big picture, even when you re focused on what s happening right now. and thinkorswim trading™ is right there with you. to help you become a smarter investor. with an innovative trading platform full of customizable tools. dedicated trade desk pros and a passionate trader community sharing strategies right on the platform. because we take trading as seriously as you do.
how the challenges to how texas created this law. oral arguments are scheduled for november 1st, that s just nine days from now which means the supreme court will take up two major and possibly consequential abortion cases this term. on december 1st, it will hear mississippi s abortion case which is a much more direct challenge to the constitutionality of abortion. supreme court justice sonia sotomayor emerges as the fiercest defender of abortion rights with the partial dissent to yesterday s decision and she agrees the court should remain in place, and it is cold comfort for texas women seeking abortion care who are entitled to relief now. according to the associated press, the law, quote, has led to an 80% reduction in abortions in the second largest states meanwhile abortions in oklahoma have been inundated with patients from texas and multiple states have passed new legislation limiting abortion rights. these developments underscore