DOJ is seeking an immediate injunction halting enforcement of Texas's 6-week abortion ban

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[StarfishSaver]

1. But, but, but - we've been told DOJ isn't DOING anything

Guess that's not true.

Good to know.

[CatWoman]

4. LOL!!!!

i feel your pain on those many threads

[PortTack]

2. To those saying the DOJ isn't doing anything..what say now?

[StarfishSaver]

6. Probably nothing

Just like last week when Garland smacked the "DOJ isn't doing anything about Texas" argument upside the head, I suspect they'll lay low for a hot minute and then come right back out to resume their attacks on DOJ as if this never happened.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

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5. Biden's DOJ seeks emergency order blocking Texas from enforcing Republicans' anti-abortion law

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[electric_blue68]

7. I guess sometimes we have to sit on our frustration and wait...

We don't know every procedure They have to go through, all the scenarios they have to parse out-
If-Then-Alt plan?

It's sure frustrating but now things are moving more

If I could snap my fingers and Women, Black People, and other POCs, the LGBTQI, and Disabled Communities (and all the intersections) would all be first class citizens
at last(!!!!!) I'd do it!

And yes TFG, some of his family, and coup loving rethugs would be in jail. 👍

[brer cat]

8. K&R

[StarfishSaver]

9. It's interesting how little traffic threads like yours get

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10. kick for visibility

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11. DOJ asks federal judge to halt enforcement of Texas abortion law

I hope that the court rules on this motion

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In its boldest move to date, the Department of Justice asked a federal judge on Tuesday to issue a temporary restraining order to block enforcement of a controversial Texas law that bars abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

"The United States has the authority to seek redress from this Court against the State of Texas, particularly in light of the procedural obstacles that Texas erected to shield S.B. 8 from judicial scrutiny in suits by directly affected persons," government lawyers argued in briefs filed late Tuesday. They said the law has "gravely and irreparably impaired women's ability to exercise their constitutional right to an abortion across the State."

The legal brief comes after the Biden administration filed suit against the state last week asserting that the law was passed in "open defiance of the Constitution." Now government lawyers are seeking to halt the law while the legal challenge plays out.

The request could move quickly through the courts -- ultimately landing at the Supreme Court -- and could determine whether clinics in the state can once again perform abortions after six weeks as both sides present their legal arguments over the coming months. It comes as the Supreme Court is set to take up a case concerning a Mississippi 15-week ban that serves as a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade sometime in late fall or early winter.