Biden team asks Supreme Court to pause Texas abortion law

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts.

The law has been in effect since September, aside from a district court-ordered pause that lasted just 48 hours, and bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks and before some women know they are pregnant.

The Justice Department asked the high court Monday to lift an order imposed by a conservative federal appeals court that has allowed Texas to continue enforcing the nation’s strictest curbs on abortion through a novel law that was written to make it hard to challenge in the federal court system. The department had announced its intentions last Friday.

The Texas law defies the Supreme Court’s major decisions on abortion rights “by banning abortion long before viability -- indeed, before many women even realize they are pregnant,” the Justice Department wrote in its plea to the court.



FILE - This Sept. 3, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s validity plays out in the courts. The law has been in effect since September, aside from a district court-ordered pause that lasted just 48 hours. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)


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[Polybius]

1. Well, I guess it's worth a try

I don't see them blocking it however.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Extremists on the Court now have to demonstrate whether they support the Constitution.

If they refuse to hear the appeal or uphold the Texas law, then we know that Constitutionality does not matter to them. I hoping they’ve looked at the effect of the Texas law and its blatant discrimination against the women of Texas in denying them access to a right enjoyed by women in all other 49 states. Allowing a vigilante system of law enforcement does not support the Constitution.

[Polybius]

4. From what I'm reading the Justice department isn't challenging the vigilante part

They seem to be challenging the six week ban, at least in today's suit.

[jstephenj]

3. The Supreme Court won't change their minds on this so what's the point...

What is the long game from the Biden Administration know this in advance? Why isn't Biden using the bully pulpit more rigorously, more assertively? "Asking" really comes across as feeble. The SC ruling is one of contempt toward women. The Biden Administation and his justice department should answer that contempt in kind.

The cynic in me tells me that the democrats want to keep the current status quo in play for fundraising purposes.

I'm not being pessimistic for the sake of being so, but I want to know what their endgame is because this current tact of maintaining decorum isn't going to do any good now or in the midterm election season.

[Polybius]

5. ""Asking" really comes across as feeble"

Well, you can't really "tell" the Supreme Court what to do. You have to "ask."

[orleans]

6. weren't they all like:

"i believe roe is settled law"
"i believe roe is settled law"
"i believe roe is settled law"
"i was just going to give you coffee"
"i was just going to give you coffee"
"i was just going to give you coffee"
"i thought we were friends"
"i thought we were friends"
"i was just going to give you coffee"

[Polybius]

7. Amy didn't say it was settled, she refused to answer

The rest did, you are correct.

[dchill]

9. I'll bet she answered when Trump asked her.

[JohnSJ]

8. Good, and the SC absolutely should because it is a direct violation of Roe V Wade. I do not hold

much optimism that it will be successful though

[deizo]

10. I am in suspense I wonder what will happen!

I keep hoping one of these conservative justices will realize I am here for life no where else to go and will turn more left it has happened in the past not overnight but gradually!