mississippi case. you have two major cases in front of the supreme court and all watching carefully. like i said at the beginning of the segment you won t get the death knell or the overturning of roe v. wade tomorrow. i m glad you explained that for us. we ll follow the cases. really carefully with your help. happy thanksgiving. sure. talk to you. that s going to do it for me. i hope you all have a great thanksgiving. i ll see you knicks saturday at noon eastern. in a moment yasmin vossoughian continues the coverage here on msnbc.
i m joined by attorney katie fang. katie, the court is considering a portion of the law and it s the part that deputizes private citizens to sue clinics, doctors and someone that drove a woman to an abortion clinic. some have compared this to bounty hunting. how did the court respond to this when they heard this case? yeah. so alex, that s a good point. i want to put everybody at ease. the life and death of roe v. wade will not be determined tomorrow. there s a concern that roe v. wade will be overturned tomorrow why that won t happen even if the supreme court issues a ruling tomorrow. on november 1 the supreme court heard oral arguments about sb 8, a law in texas. line you just mentioned it bans abortion when fetal cardiac
activity is detected. that law flies in the face of precedent from the supreme court banning abortions after 24 weeks which is viability. the unusual legislative scheme that came out of texas and the anti-abortion legislators was the following. normally as a private citizen you can go to court, the constitutionality of the law is determined. sb 8 is unusual. it says to state officials in texas you are not allowed to enforce this law. instead private laws enforce the law. that means thus far there s two pending lawsuits in the state courts. one from a guy in arkansas and one from a guy in illinois. you don t have to live in texas to sue an abortion provider. so while those state court cases are pending, the supreme court is going to decide who can sue.
effect with states across the country? sure. if the supreme court says it is okay to allow private citizens and i don t think that will happen but in the immediate sense i think what you will find is abortion providers will sue and then set up an ultimate battle royale at the supreme court level as to the constitutionality about this particular law. all the states will be watching carefully to see does the law survive eventually. meantime on december 1 there is an equally as restrictive but not as restrictive law in mississippi that will be dealt with december 1 in oral argue. . at least that mississippi law has exceptions. exemptions for severe fetal abnormalities and the law in texas doesn t have exceptions for rape and incest. everybody will be looking to see what happens with the