A federal judge took aim Tuesday at Mississippi’s recent legislation that would ban abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, noting he struck down a less-restrictive bill last year.

District Judge Carlton Reeves said that the new law “smacks of defiance” of the judiciary. He made the comment during a hearing for a lawsuit against the legislation brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, according to CNN.

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"You said we can't do 15 weeks so 'by God we will do six weeks,'" Reeves referencing the cutoff period for an abortion in the bills.

Reeves also bashed the law for not providing exceptions for rape or incest.

“So a child who is raped at 10 or 11 years old, that child does not open their mouth, doesn’t tell their parents, the rapist may be in their home, nobody discovers until it’s too late — that is a fetal heartbeat has been detected — that child must bring the fetus to term under this statute, if the fetal heartbeat can be detected," he said.

Reeves said he would issue a ruling on the lawsuit soon.

Reeves, who was appointed by former President Obama, made headlines in April when he compared President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE’s criticism of the judiciary to segregationists, without mentioning the president by name.

"But the slander and falsehoods thrown at courts today are not those of a critic, seeking to improve the judiciary’s search for truth. They are words of an attacker, seeking to distort and twist that search toward falsehood," he said at the time.