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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSCOTUS does not have to ever rule on the Texas law
They can simply find that no one who brings suit has standing.
They can just never hear a case on it.
They can also make a ruling so narrow it effectively allows the laws to stand without ruling on it's constitutionality.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)Except many boundary disputes between states.
rsdsharp
(9,042 posts)It takes 4 votes to grant cert.
JohnSJ
(91,965 posts)It cannot be ignored, because it is a direct violation of Roe, and they will be asked to rule on that directly now that Texas made it law
No one should assume Roe will be upheld though, and if not, it will put the country back 70 years
In 1973, Texas was the state. when Roe was ruled Constitutional then also
2016 was when we could have stopped this
Fuck Nader, Stein, Sarandon, and all those other self-identified progressives who encouraged people not to vote for Hillary in 2016. They are the most selfish and arrogant jackasses who have no moral standard
RockRaven
(14,784 posts)let lower court rulings they like stand without doing anything. There is no need to claim there is no standing or to issue a narrow ruling. With this 6-3 grouping they just close their eyes, cover their ears, and do literally nothing, and the monstrous laws passed by Repukes stand, so long as the appellate court ruled that way.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,369 posts)edhopper
(33,208 posts)Took care of the lower courts too.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)"have standing".
edhopper
(33,208 posts)But standing is a legal ruling and they can decide whatever they want.
For instance, a woman denied abortion who had to go to another State.
No longer pregnant, no standing. It will be easy for them.