first, the texas is possible for this law, second, can the united states hold texas to account and third, is the injunctive religious available in the answers is yes, down the line. texas is responsible for the constitutional violations here and in enacted a law that clearly violates his course presidents and it can enter design that lot for the judicial review by offering counties to the general public to carry out this enforcement function in a structured this system proceedings and so burdensome. insignificant liability that they chill the exercise in the constitutional rights altogether. in the united states and solvent interest in addressing this violation and sbh, and the brazen attack on the coordinate grants of the federal government is an attack on the authority of this court to stay with a lot is and have the judgment affected across the state and it is an attack on the congress' determination there should be access to report for review and federal courts for the right in the united states may protective supremacy of federal law against this attack. finally, the injunction of t

two, anywhere in texas texas is a bigger problem than rhode island there. three, that has no preclusive effect jones one susie clinic, jones 234,000 can soup. four, the attorneys fees are very heavy, five and they do not apply both ways, five, the penalty of 10,000 dollars et cetera is heavy. and six you are limited if you are dependent as to which kinds of defense that you can make in respect to there being an undue burden which is a problem because in most of the undue burden cases speak generally of the law of the state not on this particular defendant, okay? i have six i caught from you. is there a seventh? >> i've two more your honor. the first is that damages are not tied to the amount of harm which would normally be the case in a tort suit. the second one is that sba provides for mandatory injunction that there is a successful claimant to prevent further violations not to prevent further harm to the claimant. it's not tied to the harm. >> thank you. >> suppose this happens, a woman shows up at the clerks office and says i want to file a complaint aga

today we are filing suit against the state of texas based on our determination that texas' 2021 redistricting plans violate section ii of the voting rights act. the department reached that determination after a careful assessment of the facts and law. i want to thank the career staff of the civil rights voting section for their tremendous investigation. our complaint alleges that the redistricting plans approved by the legislature and signed into law by the governor will have denied black and latino voters an equal opportunity to participate in the voting process and to elect representatives of their choice. why violation of the voting rights act. our complaint alleges that several of those districts were drawn with discriminatory intent. texas' 2021 redistricting plans were enacted through a rushed process with minimal opportunity for public comment without any expert testimony and overall disregard for the massive minority population growth in texas over the last decade. the texas population grew by 4 million people from 2010 to 2020. 95% of that growth came from minority populations. despi

but you also say the image of texas has a gender and race that texas is a white man. what do you mean by that? >> guest: i think they think about a cowboy, west texas and cowboys and cattle and herds and so forth and it's not about a part of texas that was a slave society or where you had a plantation slavery and there's this individual that would be a white man because women don't have that kind of freedom and black people are not seen as having that kind of freedom, so the white male sort of embodies the way people see the image of texas as the a embodiment so the book>> is trying to figure out what does that mean for people that are texans and that's what i explore in the book. >> host: to your point we do think of the region in the west but you make the point that it's the east where stephen alston came and brought many settlers and wanted to make sure that slavery was accepted. can you elaborate and unpack that history of east texas and also the problems that can occur with selective memory? >> guest: considered to be the father of texas as you said abroad g sett

two, anywhere in texas. texas is a bigger problem than rhode island there. three, it has no preclusive effect. jones 1 sues the clinic, clinic wins. jones 2 through 4,000 can sue. four, the attorneys' fees are very heavy. five -- and they don't apply both ways. five, the penalty of $10,000, et cetera, is heavy. and six, you are limited if you are a defendant as to which kinds of defense you can make in respect to their being an undue burden, which is a problem because most of the undue burden cases speak generally of the effect of the law of the state, not on this particular defendant. okay? i have six that i caught from you. is there a seventh? >> i have two more, your honor. >> okay. >> the first is that damages are not tied to the amount of any harm, which would be normally the case in a tort suit. and the second one is that sb 8 provides for a mandatory injunction if there is a successful claimant to prevent further violations, not to prevent further harm to the claimant. it's not tied to -- the mandatory injunction is not tied to the harm. >> thank you.

texas understands them. the united states can't possibly have a sovereign interest in extending application of those doctrines to apply to cases they don't just because they deem this a very important case. >> general, if i understand your answer to justice sotomayor, well, even if that's a really good question that i don't have an answer to in the other case, i have an answer in this case. and that's fine. that's, you know, here you are. we are in this case now. but i guess i just would like to take you back to the other case and to ask you to answer the question that you said you wanted to avoid for justice sotomayor. >> sorry, your honor. i thought i agreed it doesn't depend on the nature of the right being asserted and that also none of the -- we could sort of raise the potential sanction as high as possible and that wouldn't affect federal court availability. i thought i answered that. to make my answer -- >> thank you. >> the nature of the remedy -- >> i do want to ask a question about that though. i m

this is the big texas abortion case. this is the case about the law in texas that essentially allowed individuals anywhere in the country to sue abortion providers if they provide an abortion to a woman after the sixth week of pregnancy, which is, of course, very early in a pregnancy, before many women know they're even pregnant. the decisions are being issued online these days because of the pandemic. they're not being read by the justices as they usually are. and just to be honest with our viewers, i don't know what the decision is yet because i haven't read it. it's just out now, and we're going to take some time and read it and get the decision, and then we'll tell people what it is. >> jeffrey, tell us about the potential implications here, because it gets to both roe v. wade but also the particular way that this law was written. >> reporter: right. the texas case is a very unusual case because it is sort of about abortion but it's also about the very odd procedure that texas created, which was an attempt to insulat

in taylor, texas. this is going to be real impactful, not just for texas, but for the country as we battle this shortage of semiconductor chips. >> well, it's huge. i'll address both issues that you raise and that is, first, texas has been very aggressive about legally challenging all of these mandates that the biden administration has put in place concerning covid. and whether it be vaccine mandates or mask mandates, whatever the case may be. and we've been winning them all in the courts and right now in texas there are no federal mandates that apply. the only mandate that applies is my executive order saying that nobody in the state of techs as can be mandated to take a vaccine shot. obviously they're available for anybody who wants it. but there can be no mandates infringing upon individual liberty. that is in part why i think there are so many businesses that are moving in the state of texas and maria, over just the first 11 months of this year there have been 70 businesses and corporations that ha

in the so texas is on my mind and my editor praised the question that may be doing a book about texas and he wanted me to do a big book about it. and i thought why not, i was thinking it also i had been thinking about my parents no longer living and i was thinking hope they have made this extraordinary times printed the world is held captive in losing control here in the viruses and bacteria in the world is involvd with this thing and what would they think about it. i really wanted to try to make a connection to them through this book rated and tell her story my grandparents story my great-grandparents story and all of this came back to me. and i really wanted to have them live in history some way without pushing it too much. it is not just my family story, it is really a story of texas i wanted to do that through the deep texas lens through the african-american people in the struggles we had their in the struggle the hopes that we gather. and that comes through a lot in your book as well, and i really wanted to ask you, what place this may not be fair but was there someplace that kin

did. >> texas lt. governor a trump ally promised to pay up to a million dollars if anyone came forward with exaxe-- examples of voter fraud, that existed with no evidence. he now made the first payout. but in an iron eck and expensive twist, it was fraud being committed on behalf of republicans. so here is the first check for $25,000. it twent to a poll worker in pennsylvania who reported a republican who voted twice. >> yeah, see, that totally proved his point. in kind of the way that was the exact opposite of his pointer. and the best part of this texas bowntee story is not only that only texas bowntee story in 2021. let's lasso in that second bowntee story now. >> aw shit, that is the third trk v this week. just play the clip. >> the nation's most restrictive abortion law is now in effect in texas after the supreme court ignored a request to block it. the measure bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exceptions for increst or rape. >> what is unique about this law is it enis

it's not just in texas, either. emboldened republicans across the country are pushing harder than ever. the former president's minions are flocking to election jobs all the way down to the local level in key battle ground states. something you need to pay attention to. steve bannon charged with contempt of congress after he failed to compile with the subpoena from the house committee investigating january 6th saying the quiet part out loud on his podcast, the day he was indicted. >> we're taking over the republican party from the precinct committee strategy and taking over all the elections. >> this is a very serious threat to our democracy. time is running out to make sure that the next election is truly secure. whatever happened to the push in congress to secure voting rights? remember the president told me this on our town hall over the summer. here it is. >> this is important for people who look like me. my grandmother would sit around when i was a kid fifth grade, had a fifth grade education. i learned that she

the effect hasn't had in texas? the effect has _ effect hasn't had in texas? the effect has been _ effect hasn't had in texas? tue: effect has been dramatic. effect hasn't had in texas? tte: effect has been dramatic. it's effect hasn't had in texas? tt2 effect has been dramatic. it's in september one when the law took effect. research has shown that about half of the abortions that would've typically happened in texas did not, so the vast majority of abortions are not happening in the state. women are either opting not to get abortions or are going out of state. ,, , ., ~ ., ., state. the supreme court, we know of course is known _ state. the supreme court, we know of course is known as _ state. the supreme court, we know of course is known as having _ state. the supreme court, we know of course is known as having a _ state. the supreme court, we know of course is known as having a now- course is known as having a now conservative leaning to it in the nine justices thanks to the justices that have been appointed under president trump. we had oral hearings last

from everything i've read, people in texas, black people in texas, white people in texas who want a better texas are committed to standing against these things so i'm hopeful attention has been paid to the that we are going to fight it and see what they can do and the racial front continues. >> i think that's a great note to end on and before we go from a i want to read a couple things from our audience. thank you for your words. deborah says thank you for your inspiring scholarship and free library philadelphia for hosting, so thanks to get a preview of your book your own words, looking forward to reading it and finally, nicole if you look in the question section, anybody interested, she has placed a link for further information about that if anyone would like to look into some think it for that. professor, it has been an honor and delight to spend time with you. thank you for taking time to be with us. >> thank you for having me. >> an absolute pleasure. thank you to our audience for your quick questions and participation. thank you to laura jason and the team at other events of the free

it is good you get to see where is a texas? we got maps on saturday and there is a hearing the next week in the night before. it is not a car p.m. texas time and they released more maps that they want people to talk about at the hearing. the one hearing was going to happen out of 42 that the commission had. >> the census data was delayed this year as a result of the covid crisis. is that going to affect redistricting and how has it? ultimately, will it matter much or not at all? >> i think you already see states using it as an excuse and that is one way. in texas, they said we would have loved to have gone around the state and have lots of testimony per covid interfered, which is weird because the legislature took requiring testimony to be in person. there is no covid crisis that required you to testify in person. they could knock around the state if you are tested because of covid. the other thing that they play out is redistricting is later than normally this year and never leave less time for litigation. bob: probably more m

texas, of course, a massive state. some travels significant distances here, and now groups are saying that more patients are carrying unwanted pregnancies to term here. we have heard from both sides as of this point in time. dan patrick responded on twitter earlier today. i want you to read what he had so a, saying that texas' heartbeat bill remains intact following the preliminary ruling. texas is a solidly pro-life state. a great victory for the unborn. meanwhile, we are also hearing from vice president kamala harris who had this to say. every day we wait, every day we don't address maternal mortality is a day a mother could die, and we are working on ending this trend. this being one of the primary points we have heard the vice president addressing over the last several weeks and months. here in texas, a lot of these clinics, while this constitutionality of sb8 can now be challenged at the state level are choosing to simply wait until this is carried out through the courts, they say that every day that this goes by,

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. beyer: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: i yield one minute to the gentleman from ohio, mr. davidson. >> it is not compassion nature to bankrupt america. that is what this plan does. it equips this country with more debt with no plan to pay for the future debt. it is a debt bomb and something this body has an obligation to stop. this country is on auto pilot for a crash site. the whole point of the debt ceiling is to force this body to do its body and come up with a plan not to default. the question isn't whether we default tomorrow and of course we should pay our debts and shouldn't default in the future and unless we come up with a different course of action, i will oppose it and i encourage my colleagues to oppose it and until we avert the crisis in the crash that is coming. don't bankrupt america. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman

in vanstein versus texas right to life, a lower texas state court ruled that this procedural mechanism violates the texas state constitution and enjoined it on that basis. of course, it was immediately appealed and it won't be any solace to providers until it reaches the texas supreme court. but we should be keeping our eyes on both those cases. >> but for all intents and purposes, this law, elie is still in effect for now. the texas law went into effect in september. neighboring states have been flooded with texas patients. a legal brief against the law noted, quote, in new mexico, an influx of patients from texas has already strained provider resources and made it more difficult for new mexico residents to receive timely care. what other impacts do you see, do you anticipate in light of today's decision? >> well, pam, this is a key part of justice sotomayor's dissent. justice sotomayor has made clear she's going to fight all the way here. just the existence of these laws has a chilling effect. just the possibility of getting sued here is enough to close down these clinics and cause w

here they're acting in concert with texas you say because they're bringing suit under a texas law. if somebody brings suit in maryland under maryland defamation law, they're acting in concert with maryland, is that right? >> no. we're not suggesting that every private right of action is governed by these same principles, but the key difference here is that the individuals who are sb 8 plaintiffs are exercising the state's own enforcement authority. this is not meant to remedy some private arm those individuals suffered. i think the best example or illustration of that is that the $10,000-plus bounty the state has created is only available to the first-comer. the suggest that was made earlier by texas that this could be some redress for personal outrage i think is inconsist accident with how the scheme is structured. this is meant to simply function as a method of encouraging the suits to be filed in the state's behalf. in that circumstance we think it can qualify as active concert or participation. >> well, the texas constitution requires injury, in fact. this statute, as i underst

for texas, what does it mean in real terms? >> in real terms, remember what happened after this law became the law of texas was abortion providers, all of these doctors, all of these clinics, not enough of them for the women that needed them, but were making health care accessible to them, suddenly stopped. it's 85% of women who wanted and desired to have an abortion and could constitutionally have one under roe v. wade and casey, that they simply didn't have a place to go and had to leave the state to simply take care of their own reproductive health choices. now the fact that this has been challenged may open up more providers to be able to provide those services now. it opens up something that is critically important for the health and well-being of girls who have been trying to get the reproductive health care that was their constitutional right to. >> so a lot has to do with precedent, right? the law of the land, as many of the magistrates that are currently in the supreme court said on both sides when they were going thro

such an historical day for texas. but quickly, our white house reporter mark meredith was just getting reaction from president biden to the sixth circuit court of appeals reinstating the vaccine mandate. president biden saying we could be headed for a winter of severe illness. you're a lawyer and a previous judge. what's your reaction to sixth circuit's decision? >> i think the sixth circuit is totally wrong. just as some justices have said from other courts, just because there's an emergency doesn't mean that americans have to give up their constitutional rights. and especially since everything that fauci has talked about has not been effective. it's not working. you may have seen the latest data out of the united kingdom. so in england, the united kingdom, 81% of the deaths have been among the vaccinated. and when i was hosting sean hannity's radio show yesterday, i had dr. ralph malone are on, the guy that discovered, that created the mrna, that technology that's used in the vaccinations. he is extremely concerned.

put these solutions together, from texas, dr. burgess. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: i thank my friend for yielding. look, i'm on the energy and commerce committee. i'm on the budget committee. i'm on the rules committee. but i'm also co-chair of the house republican doctors' caucus. last week the surgeon general of the united states asked if he could come and talk to us and we made that a bipartisan meeting. we included doctors -- democrats who are physicians as well in that meeting. the doctor was concerned primarily about physician burnout. he's encountered a lot of it since he's re-assumed his role as a surgeon general, the nation's top doctor. we shared with the surgeon general, one of the principle drivers, yes, the pandemic has been a problem. cutting down elective surgeries in the pandemic and clogging the cash flow in offices was a problem. but one of the real drivers of physician burnout today is constant, constant and -- constant haggling and no solution over these cuts. a year ago

the texas law was designed to prevent legal challenge. what normally happens when state legislates passed restrictions on abortion laws that are seen as unconstitutional, the federal courts step in and block those laws. the state of texas is not responsible for enforcing the law. it has passed that task to any ordinary citizen. ordinary citizens cannot be taken to federal court. this was the problem. the supreme court agreed this was unacceptable. they provided the narrow pathway for abortion clinics to take this to federal court and pursue their case there. however, they were disappointed the court did not block the law in the meantime. the conservative justices refused to grant the request that the lobby put on hold while the legal action was taken place. that was a big disappointment they said because it is an extreme law that bans artions at roughly six weeks and has created great difficulties for women seeking abortions. >> where could things go from here? you mentioned activists could have a narrow pathway. what might happen next? >

abortions still banned in texas. five republican appointed justices who were in the majority today let it stand. and remember the weird way this ban works. texas didn't just up and declare abortions a crime and then send out the cops to arrest people for it. they made this weird new law that's designed to evade roe v. wade. it's designed to get around the fact abortion is a constitutionally protected right. and the way they do it instead of sending out cops to arrest people for having an abortion or providing an abortion, they setup this weird scheme by which random private citizens are invited to bring lawsuits against someone who's involved in an abortion. and if that lawsuit prevails, if they can prove a person provided an abortion or worked as a receptionist or checked someone in at an abortion clinic or they can prove you loaned your sister money to get an abortion or let her stay at your house the night before the appointment, if they can prove you were the uber driver or bus driver who dropped her off at the c

i know concern in texas. i know that he's the la announced it's officially moving its headquarters to austin. what because that mean for texas? and then there's the samsung committing to a $17 billion semiconductor factory in taylor, texas. this is going to be the real impactful not just for texas, but for the country as we battle this shortage of semiconductor chips. >> well, it's huge. i'll address both issues that you raise,, and that is, first, texas has been very aggressive about legally challenging all of these mandates that the biden administration has put in place concerning covid whether it be vaccine mandates or mask mandates, and we've been winning them all in the course. and right now in texas there are the noal federal mandates, the only mandate that applies is my executive thehs order says noboy in the statee of texas can be mandated to take a vaccine shot. obviously, they're available for anybody who wants it, but there can be no mandates infringing upon individual liberty. that isth in part wh

and now the federal government is suing texas. the department of justice claims republican lawmakers are deliberately discriminating against a growing non white population. as a supreme court has observed a core principle of our democracy, is that quote, voters should choose the representatives, not the other way around. kaylee runs this mexican restaurant in austin. frustrated doesn't come close. yeah. doing that, there are just now representing that that's a lateral law mean is is that is awesome to us, to stand up and say something like it. now that he was going to give up. the democrats campaigned hot here in texas in the 2020 presidential election and assigning just how much they think best state could flip. now that didn't happen, but they are increasingly confident here. texas is no longer the certainty for the republicans that it once was and not has got some in the g o. pe pretty worried texas gained to new seats in congress after the 2020 census which showed the population shut up by 4000000 over the last decade. 95 perc

a lot of folks in texas. a lot of democrats thought lawsuits against these maps would be inevitable, and there were some already filed. now the justice department is stepping in here. can you explain to people the issue here, why justice thinks that latino voters in particular in texas are having a raw deal on the maps? >> yeah. i mean, the numbers tell you a strong story. 95% of texas's huge population growth over the last ten years came from black and hispanic voters. but the districts are very much supporting republican voters, typically white voters with just zero of these opportunity districts or majority/minority districts that often boost and help voters of color elect the representatives of their choice. the fact that there are more white majority districts or white plurality districts in these maps is what the justice department is taking issue with. the fact that they have not drawn in new hispanic majority districts. that's pretty much at issue here. this is 4 million people in texas. pretty stunni

johnson of texas, mr. cohen of tennessee and mr. neal of massachusetts, i inform the house that those seven members will vote yes on h.res. 849. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. miller from the state of west virginia, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mrs. miller will vote no on resolution 849. as the member designated by mr. jackson from the state of texas, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. jackson will vote no on house resolution 849. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from washington seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. strickland from washington, i inform the house that ms. strickland will vote yes on h.res. 849. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. jacobs of new york, i inform the house that mr. jacobs will vot

if you want to see texas come to rural texas, an hour southwest of austin. a group of military vets has breakfast every tuesday at 9:00 on the square. come join us, breakfast is on us. >> i hear that from everybody. austin is different from texas. stuart: very true. thanks to everybody who sent their feedback stuff. here is the friday trivia question. how many time zones does russia cross? the answer, don't google it please, we will be back. always put clients first. (other money manager) so you do it because you have to? (naj) no, we do it because it's the right thing to do. ... (naj) one that we don't take lightly. it's why our fees are structured so we do better when our clients do better. fisher investments is clearly different. stuart: good question, how in time zones does russia cross? quick guesses, please, lauren? lauren: 10. stuart: susan? reporter: sub-10. single-digits. china has no time zone differences so thinking russia, china. stuart: well give us a number? reporter: seven. stuart: thank you very much indeed. ash? ashley: 12 and how come we do

so in texas it is already happening but should you live in a state like texas, you will have fewer places to travel because a large swath of the country in that map you showed you will have to travel ever further because the midwest and the southeast will all close their doors to people seeking abortions. >> you have to get on the plane. as you and i have talked about many times, there are people that just can't take that much time off of work in order to make that type of track, much less have the resources to take the flight. which of course, professor goodwin, you said you wanted to talk about race, so i want to loop back to that. but within the context of maternal health outcomes and who these abortion bans will affect. >> let's be clear that these bans harm the most vulnerable of people in our society, and those who have both risked their health in terms of being coerced or forced to carry pregnancies to term that they have not wanted have been black and brown, including in the state of texas and in mississippi where there is only one abortion clinic that remains. the majority of the

it is really devastating.- safety in texas, and it is really devastating. what is the effect of that _ really devastating. what is the effect of that ruling, _ really devastating. what is the effect of that ruling, do - really devastating. what is the effect of that ruling, do you i effect of that ruling, do you think? what effect will it have? also this lot has been in place since september. have you seen any changes based on what was decided then? we seen any changes based on what was decided then?— was decided then? we won on -a er was decided then? we won on paper today- _ was decided then? we won on paper today. it's _ was decided then? we won on paper today. it's considered i was decided then? we won on paper today. it's considered a| paper today. it's considered a legal win, paper today. it's considered a legalwin, because paper today. it's considered a legal win, because the court allowed us to continue this lawsuit and guided us, but for real people on the ground in texas, there is no injunction, and about 80% of the people who need abortions in