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This is Beyond a Reasonable Doubt with your hosts, Mark Garagas, and Gary Smith.

Quite a day today. You're quite a week. It's been. Yeah, absolutely. It's been it's been something good to see you, Mark.

Good to see you too. US Supreme Court obviously leading the legal news of the day. It's not the week or the year.

Did something happen? Yeah, you might have heard. Five to four. US Supreme Court did not get involved in a

rather controversial Texas law that basically deputizes citizens to be able to collect up to $10,000

bounties on people who are trying to have abortions or give abortions after the six-week limit.

And the after-ro versus Wade and Casey versus Planned Parenthood, the current state of the laws that there

should not be any restrictions up to the point of viability, which has traditionally been 22 to 24 weeks.

Interestingly, the way this law was written if people are wondering why what the rationale is for

the US Supreme Court having five votes not to get involved. And by the way, interestingly,

the my three three three theory does not work here obviously because Justice Chief Justice Roberts

sided with the three what are termed liberal justices. I've heard them all work.

First and the reason that they do not get involved is number one, they say it's not a state action,

meaning it's not the government. It's basically the government deputizing and the issue of arguably

future harm and that there isn't that isn't ripe yet, so to speak.

It's worked its way up to the Supreme Court rather quickly, but they declined to take it. They declined

first of all to to stay it and then declined to take it at this point.

Are you aware of any other states that have done have tried to go about something this way?

I mean, I've seen all kinds of challenges to these sorts of laws, but I've never seen them go

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