THAT’IT.S SOLEDAD: FOR DECADES, THE SUPREME COURT HAS UPHELD ROE V. WADE AND THE RIGHT TO ABORTION PRIOR TO THE VIABILITY OF THE FE S. NOW, THE COURT APPEARS TO BE REEXAMINING THAT RIGHT. HERE TO WALK US ROTHUGH THE LEGAL ISSUES, AMY HOWE, A LEGAL EXPERT WHO COVERS THE SUPREME COURT AND IS THE CO-FOUNDEOFR SCOTUSBLOG. AMY,OW H AT SCOTUS BLOG, THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME. NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. SO, WALK ME THROUGH THE CASES THAT ARE BEFORE THE COURT RIGHT NOW. AMY: SO THE SUPREME COURT, WHEN IT RETURNS TO THE BENCH, HAS A NUMBER OF HIGH PROFILE CASES COMING UP, IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE A REALLY EPIC TERM. ONE OF THE BIG ONES THAT EVERYONE’S WATCHING, OF COURSE, IS A CASE CALLED DOBBS VERSUS JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATI.ON AND THIS IS A CHALLENGE ATO MISSISSIPPI LAW THAT BANS VIRTUALLY ALL ABORTIONAFRS THE 15TH WEEK OF PREGNANCY. SOLEDAD: THE PORRI CASE INVOLVES SOMETHING CALLED THE SHADOW DOCKET. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THAT IS? AMY: SURE, THE SHADOW DOCKET REFERS TO ESSENTIALLY EVERYTHING THAT COMES TO THE SUPREME COURT OUTSIDE OF ITS NORMAL PROCS, THE SUPREME COURT GOES ROTHUGH 70 CASES EVERY YEAR. SOLEDAD: WHICH MEANS NO HEARINGS. THEY DON’T WRITE OPINIONS. AMY:S A SOMEONE DID JUST THIS WEEK, A TEXAS INMATE CAME TO THE SUPREME COURT ASKING THE SUPREME COURT TO BLOCK HIS EXECUTN.IO THE SUPREME COURT LAST NIGHT ISSUED A VERY SHORT ORDER ATTH SAID NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO CARRY OUT THE EXECUTION. SOLED:DA I MENTIONED THAT A LOT OF THESE CASES HAVE BEEN AND ARE FOCUSED ON THE VIABILITY OF THE FETUS. SO CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO OUR VIEWERS HOW THIS MOST RENTCE CASE THAT WILL COME BEFORE THE COURT COULD CHALLENGCODE -- COULD CHALLENGE, COULD EFFECTIVELY GET RID OF ROE VERSUS WE?AD AMY: THE MISSISSIPPI LAWAY SS WESH 2 NEWS WESH 2 NEWS -- AMY: THE MISSISSIPPI LAW THAT BANS VIRTUALLY ALL ABORTIONS AFTETHR E 15TH WEEK OF PREGNANCY. SO THAT’S SEVERAL WEEKS BEFORE THE FETUS BECOMES VIAB. AND SO, THE MISSISSIPPI LAW UNDER ROE VERSUS WADE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE IT BANS ABORTIONS BEFORE THE FUSET BECOMES VIABLE. SOLED:DA THEY COULD, IN A WAY, END UP CREATING A SYSTEM WHERE EVERY STATE MAKES THE DECISION, WHICH THEN WOULD DE FACTO UNDERMINE ROV.E WADE, EVEN IF TECHNICALLY THEY DON’T OVERTURN ROE V. WADE. IS THAT FAIR TO SAY? AMY: THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. AND PEOPLE WHO FREQUENTLY PEOPLE O WHOPPOSE ABORTION SAY AND THEY’RE RIGHT THAT IFHE T SUPREME COURT OVERRULES ROE VS. WADE, IT’S NOT THAT ABORTIONS WON’T BE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES. THE ISSUE RETURNS TO THE STATES AND EACH STATE CAN DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT THEY THEY WANT TO MAKE ABORTIONS AVAILABLE AND THEN, THE SECOND POINT TTHA I THINK YOU’RE MAKINACG CURATELY IS THAT THERE ARE THERE ARE LINES THAT THE SUPREME COURT COULD TRY TO DRAW. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO FOOWLL THE COURT CLOSELY THAT THINK THAT IS AN OPTION THE SUPREME COURT COULD TAKE TO AVDOI THE TUMULT THAT WOULD HAPPEN IF NEXT JUNE, SHORTLY BEFORE THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, THE SUPREME COURT ANNOUNCES THAT IT HAS OVERRULED ROE V. WADE. SOLE