Will the Texas Abortion Ban Backfire? | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

so let me ask about texas what's going on in texas because this i mean this is wow this is uh interesting stuff and interesting that the supreme court already basically heard it i heard now that the justice department biden's department is going to sue texas and what take it all the way to the supreme court oh wait we did that and the supreme court said texas you do you uh so i'm wondering if this could backfire though you know republicans always seem to me to be happier when they're out of office because they just are so good at bitching and they just love to own the libs and complain and when they get into office and they get to enact some of their ideas they scare the out of people and i think this is the you know elections are one on fear a lot of the time i mean that's how trump got in you the fear of the overreaching of the liberals and so forth i'm wondering if this could really help i think governor abbott is helping gavin newsom i think people are going to look at that and go oh my god we don't want a republican governor here in this state if that's what a republican governor might do and [Music] you think that's possible it is definitely possible you know in my lifetime covering or in my career covering politics so many people would talk about this concept that if roe v wade was ever overturned if women would take to the streets and that would just end everything and you'd have a permanent democratic majority and this has been slowly happening for a very very long time especially at state legislators people have been challenging trying to get things to the court you know what trump did to the judiciary across the country had very very strong lasting effects and i shouldn't just say mitch mcconnell and trump you know completely changing the judiciary with justices who would be in favor of things like what happened in texas and i think it is extremely dangerous i mean i can go into the merits of that i don't know if that's the debate you want to have but and then particularly in texas where you know they're trying to restrict voting rights um but they're also forcing sports teams to have the national anthem at every single game in texas while you're not allowed to do something with your own body um it is it is dangerous and really alarming for any person not just a woman the texas law is a short-lived sideshow as soon as it's enforced by one of these private attorney generals this citizen sues another citizen it will i'm confident be struck down summarily the big show is coming this fall when there will be oral arguments in the mississippi case where the court is being asked explicitly to overturn roe v wade and by june of 2022 in the midst of the off-year elections there'll be an answer to that you

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

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Keywords: Rep. Barbara Lee, Democratic Congresswoman, California's 13th district, Christina Bellantoni, Media Center at USC Annenberg's School for Communication and Journalism, The 19th News, independent nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy, George F. Will, Washington Post, American Happiness and Discontents, The Unruly Torrent

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Length: 3min 13sec (193 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 11 2021