afternoon. the ruling today is an attempt to undo, in interest of what is happening in texas and mississippi and around country is an attempt to undo 50 years of precedent and as far as i am concerned and as far as our administration is concerned, a woman s right to make decisions about her own body is nonnegotiable. cnn chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, joins us. also, former democratic texas senate senator wendy davis who blocked an abortion bill in the state during a 13-hour filibuster. senator davis, last spoke with you after you heard arguments in the case before the supreme court challenging mississippi s 15-week ban on abortions. you came out of that saying you thought the court was positioning itself to over turn roe v. wade. did you hear anything in today s decision that changed your mind? i didn t hear anything that changed my mind in that regard. and of course, what s happened now, anderson, is this law continues to be in effect in texas. it s now been in effect for
last week. where the court the same five justices who were in the majority here, were were jumping out of their seats trying to overrule roe versus wade. so i think, um, the the the subtext of today s decision is, you know, this law doesn t really this procedure stuff doesn t matter because in a couple months, we are going to get rid of all restrictions on abortion. so, that s that s really where things appear to be heading. and the procedural niceties here will be forgotten by that point. senator davis, could i mean, if what you said is, you know, true about then this basically could impact states ignoring federal laws, ignoring the constitution, and making up their own rules. could you see this decision backfiring on this conservative court, for example, a state like new york passing or some liberal state passing a similar law on gun rights? if there was consistency with these five justices, i could see that this would create a problem.
of precedent and as far as i am concerned and as far as our administration is concerned, a woman s right to make decisions about her own body is nonnegotiable. cnn chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, joins us. also, former democratic texas senate senator wendy davis who blocked an abortion bill in the state during a 13-hour filibuster. senator davis, last spoke with you after you heard arguments in the case before the supreme court challenging mississippi s 15-week ban on abortions. you came out of that saying you thought the court was positioning itself to over turn roe v. wade. did you hear anything in today s decision that changed your mind? i didn t hear anything that changed my mind in that regard. and of course, what s happened now, anderson, is this law continues to be in effect in texas. it s now been in effect for more than 100 days. and the court left no opening whatsoever today for statewide injunctive relief. and instead, it s like it put us right back at square one. w
time, the supreme court, 5-4, is saying it s okay, leave this law in effect. that s something i have never seen before. it s something roberts, apparently, had never seen before. but i think it s indicative of how aggressive the conservative majority is going to be on the court on this issue and perhaps others. senator davis, the court did allow a ppotential avenue for abortion providers for challenge of the law. but it s always seemed like the point of the law was to make providing abortions so expensive and legally difficult, it s essentially impossible for them to operate in texas. does anything about today s decision change that? no, nothing does. and the only thing the report really opened in terms of a window today is to prevent state licensing authorities from basically taking the license of doctors away under senate bill 8. but it completely left in place the vigilante piece of this law. and what roberts was expressing his concern about today it was almost as though you c
in the economy in this country if we don t do something about it in the political spectrum. wendy davis, jeff toobin, appreciate it. thank you. there is new information tonight on the omicron variant from one of the first studies done in the united states. we will tell you what it says and talk about it with michael osterholm. he protected accurately the impact of the delta variant, where he now thinks we re headed, next. hey google.