Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National

Constitution Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of

constitutional debate. The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two challenges to a Texas law that bans abortion

after six weeks.

Today we will unpack the complicated procedural issues in the case

and I'm joined by two of America's leading experts on the case who are so well

equipped to help all of us understand the procedural stakes.

Miriam Becker Cohn is appellate counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center.

She co-authored a brief on behalf of

CAC in both cases in support of the petitioners, the abortion

provider of Whole Women's Health and the

Biden administration. Miriam, thank you so much for joining. Thank you so much for having me Jeff.

And Stephen Sachs is the Antonin Scalia Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

He has covered these cases for the legal blog,

the Vulla conspiracy.

Stephen, it's great to have you back on the show.

Good to be here.

Let's begin with the Whole Woman's Health

versus Jackson case.

Miriam, in the Constitutional Accountability Center's brief,

you argued that to accept Texas's argument that it's not possible to file a

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