instance, going after the attorney general of this country. cnn did speak to a law professor earlier today who said whether or not this injunction would have happened really doesn t make that much of a difference because the court is in recess anyway until september and wouldn t have handled any of those cases anyhow. nevertheless, of course there is huge backlash still here against the decision that was made by the can necessary et on monday. i want you to listen to the prime minister and what he said on monday. at this point if one wants to help israel, then the president of the united states has to say publicly, explicitly, officially that america is reassessing its relations with the state of israel on all matters, on economic matters, on foreign aid, on everything. reporter: now, of course in september the supreme court wants to hear all seven petitions against this new law, and some of the organizations that have put forward those
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have a chance to get involved to overturn it, then you ve basically usurped the constitution but in way that is deeply anti-democratic, because there s no opportunity procedurally for a court to get involved unless a lawsuit is filed. so why is that important? because if you re antichoice and you pass a law like this in texas, you could just tell all the antichoice people to never file a lawsuit. if they never file a lawsuit, then there s no standing on the part of the person who gets sued to respond in court and to complain. you can t sue me because it s unconstitutional. that s the scheme. that s the kind of devious backdrop to this law that s so it s just infuriating. but i also think it s illegal. and one of these cases, the direct challenge to whether texas has the authority to usurp the constitution in this way by preventing judicial review, that s going to be one of the important questions the courts are going to have to wrangle
affecting texas, for that spirit case, given that, as julia mentioned, they both came through the same federal district court, the fifth district in texas? that s right, the fifth circuit district court of appeals, already a very conservative court, has already struck down from mississippi another abortion restriction. and that one limited abortions at 15 weeks, which the fifth circuit said violates roe v. wade. roe v. wade asks about viability. it is not a numerical measure the. roe v. wade doesn t want to hear about weeks, it wants to just know about viability, which a doctor can decide. so when the fifth circuit had a chance to review that mississippi law that named the limitation at 15 weeks, the fifth circuit said this is unconstitutional and that was appealed. that s the case that s going to be heard in december. what s interesting, in my view, in terms of the texas law, is that because the fifth circuit has already struck down a 15-week restriction, i think
there s no question the fifth circuit would also strike down the texas law. but because the supreme court has agreed to hear the mississippi case, it s likely the fifth circuit in the texas case will wait until the supreme court rules. so that in the event the supreme court in the mississippi case overturns roe v. wade, that would have substantial impact on what the fifth circuit thinks about texas. so i think the point is, if the supreme court overturns roe v. wade in the mississippi case, the texas law will probably be upheld. so pete, if you re back with us, if you can hear us now, what does this new ruling, this ruling from this judge in texas, what does this mean for other states that are trying to go down the same path as texas with this abortion restriction? well, it s certainly a yellow caution light, if they re thinking about doing this.