and even today, 50 years after they were founded, as they re celebrating their 50th anniversary of being in business with the collapsible doggie bowl and all the rest ofit, even today grendel s den has a site supporting their case on their website. it s the same place where you can buy the shot glasses and the onesies and everything else. they have a link for that citation to that court case because they re very proud of that case. because they won that case. massachusetts law said the state, the government, had the power to give or withhold a license to serve liquor, which you need in order to operate a bar. but massachusetts then delegated effectively that power to a private entity, to churches. the holy cross armenian catholic church used that power to say that grendel s den could not have a liquor license.
the supreme court and back and the way texas republicans were able to basically scheme that one in such a way that it could avoid federal scrutiny in the courts. yeah, so i think there are a couple things about this law that make it particularly vulnerable. the first is texas can t claim, like some other states do, that it has expansive voting rights. it s one of the hardest states already to register to vote and to vote. so we re starting off of a baseline which is pretty restrictive to begin with. number two, you have the state officials in texas saying that there was no evidence of fraud in their state. so there s no reason for the law. and the third, which is really one of the pieces of this law that makes it so dangerous and so different is the allowance and the incitement, almost, for partisan poll watchers to go to the polls and have free range in the watching up close how voters vote, and any time election officials try to rein them in,
maneuvering by texas women and people who support them to try to get around the structures of this new law, this reality where it s illegal to get an abortion now. in the midst of that today, though, watching all those developments was a bit of a bull from the blue to get today s news from across texas other state line. from across texas border to the south. because today the supreme court of mexico ruled that it is unconstitutional to ban abortion any longer in that country. some states in mexico allow for legal abortion, some do not, but the supreme court ruling today in mexico struck down one state s abortion ban, and the ruling is expected to be binding on all states in the country. in other words, mexico just got its roe v. wade today, just a few days after the republican-appointed majority on our supreme court got rid of the protections of roe in the united states of america. it s like our two countries
with the collapsible doggie bowl and all the rest of it, even today grendel s den has a site supporting their case on their website. it s the same place where you can buy the shot glasses and the onesies and everything else. they have a link for that citation to that court case because they re very proud of that case. because they won that case. massachusetts law said the state, the government, had the power to give or withhold a license to serve liquor, which you need in order to operate a bar. but massachusetts then delegated effectively that power to a private entity, to churches. the holy cross armenian catholic church used that power to say that grendel s den could not have a liquor license. grendel s den sued. they got a really good, somewhat famous lawyer to argue their
passed each other at the threshold, right? one country leaving the century going backwards, the other one on its way in. nobody is quite sure what the biden administration is going to do, or what they can do, especially as red states, republican-controlled states, gear up to xerox the texas bill and put their own bans in place. president biden did pledge a whole of government approach to try to protect women s constitutional rights. attorney general merrick garland said yesterday the doj is reviewing its options, but nobody knows quite sure what they ll do. professor lawrence tribe has some pointed advice there as well. joining us now is professor lawrence tribe who co-wrote an op-ed in the boston globe today about the supreme court s 1982 decision in the grendel s den case. he argued that and won. he argues today it could upend texas new abortion law. professor tribe is an emeritus