tonight? uh, i think that those kids are in varying conditions. some of them are seemingly, you know, starting to be on the mend. and others are in critical condition. so, i i m certainly hopeful that we don t lose any any more kids than, of course, the last, you know, child that died this morning. but we really just don t know at this point. michigan attorney general, dana nessel, i really appreciate your time tonight. thank you so much. the most serious challenge to row v. wade in decades was heard today by the supreme court the future of reproductive rights could be at stake if justices green light mississippi s ban after just 15 weeks of pregnancy. appears to be leaning in one direction already. we will assess the potential historic implications, next. yeah. i love finding out things that other people don t want me to know.
how texas wrote the law to evade the protections of roe versus wade. officials who work for the state of texas aren t enforcing it. instead it is enforced by individual private citizens in the country who bring lawsuits, who are allowed to bring lawsuits against anyone who provides a woman an abortion in texas or helps her get one. today the state of texas amounts in court. there were arguments that this should be thrown out. texas s reasoning was that because of this vigilante clause makes it so that no federal court can be allowed to challenge this. a federal court can block officials who work from a state from doing something, but they can t stop private occipital extends who have been newly
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effectively banned abortion. row v wade is supposed to block any state from doing that. today on an expedited schedule the supreme court heard oral arguments. texas wrote the law to evade the protections of roe vs. wade. officials who work for the state of texas aren t enforcing it. it is enforced by private citizens in the country who bring lawsuits, who are allowed to bring lawsuits against anyone who provides a woman an abortion in texas. today the arguments was that this should be thrown out.
texas. now what? the showdowns are pretty much handled on a supremacy clause that says the federal law and supreme court precedent will take precedent over the idea of a state law. texas knows they re in violation of row v. wade. they know they re in violation of federal law and they re attempting to go around as an end game. garland called out today there was an obvious and expressley stated goal of here. what is interesting we ve been talking for a long time, don, about the iof idea uber drivers could have been swept under this, school counsellors, you name it. the idea of the vague definition behalf it means to aid and abet somebody trying to get an abortion, seems to have given license now to the department of justice to say it means our federal employees trying to