The capitol attack, tHreatening their way out of an investigation . These telecommunication companies, if they go along with this, they will be shut down. And thats a promise. Breaking news from the American Medical Association regarding doctors giving Deworming Medicine to covid patients. My exclusive interview with the head of the ama when All In starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im cHris hayes. As of today, roe versus wade is essentially dead in the state Of Texas, the second largest state in the union. The right to abortion, as recognized by the Supreme Court in 1973 with decades of precedent reviewed over and over decades of jurisprudence. That right is effectively gone in our state of the union. It did not go into the 63 court with fanfare and coverage, instead it came with just total absence, silence, as the court failed to rule on a request to block the new law passed by Texas Republicans and signed by Governor Greg Abbott. That law, Senate Bill 8, went into effect
Attorney s fees. if your case was wrong, they re not allowed attorney s fees. obviously the asymmetry is there, and melissa, just to put a fine point on this, my understanding of the way this law is drafted, if a woman in texas has a miscarriage, someone with a vendetta against her, an ex-boyfriend, for instance, could sue under this law claiming an illegal abortion, then she would have to, like, go to court and defend herself. if she wins, she s out the money of that. and if she loses, she would wen pay that person $10,000. so the law targets providers and those who skpad a bet. providers or pregnant women yes, yes. she s off the table. the law has a couple different purposes. one is to isolate the pregnant
When a law is unconstitutional is to prohibit it from being enforced pending appeals and arguments. for instance, just a thought experiment here, let s say the state of new york passed a law saying no one can carry a weapon of any kind outside their home, and other people can sue you if you do, this supreme court would enjoy that before it ever went to practice, believe you me. but in this case with the radical texas abortion law, they have not. it went into effect at midnight in the dead of night. it has been nearly 20 hours, and so far silence from the court. we don t know what they re thinking, what they re doing, what s going on. we re not going to do anything to stop this from happening. that s all we got. and believe you me, this signals some ominous about the future of roe and abortion rights and women s rights in this country. that landmark case is already in the crosshairs, as you probably know. mississippi, of course, has a law in the books banning most abortions after 15 wee
To roe v. wade. that s on the ballot as well. you don t know what s on the ballot? that s not on the ballot. you don t know her view on roe v. wade. i don t know. donald trump a stupid man in many ways but with good political instincts, understanding he doesn t want roe v. wade on the ballot. but he pointed out he only appoints justices who oppose roe v. wade. so the conservative court under justice john roberts, that court has had a few main projects, one of them protecting corporations from government regulation, and that may mean rolling back the sort of jurisprudence, they ve been laser focused on rolling back voting rights, and making abortion more difficult. they ve been laser focused on that agenda from the beginning.
Petitioning the court to uphold those restrictions and explicitly to overturn roe v. wade. and, of course, the court now has a 6-3 conservative majority thanks to three trump appointees and thanks to the multi-decade project of a seamy partnership between the anti-abortion movement in corporate america. you have to remember how this all went down. anti-abortion forces who are powerful and organized in this country, they saw how several previous republican supreme court nominees turned out. sandra day o conner, and where it mattered most. the anti-abortion forces in this country undertook an effort after that to make sure that no republican president would ever, ever nominate a squish on abortion again.