The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Texas' near-total abortion ban Monday. Here's what you

[TexasTowelie]

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Texas’ near-total abortion ban Monday. Here’s what you need to know.

by Reese Oxner, Texas Tribune


The U.S. Supreme Court will take up on Monday the highest-profile legal challenges to Texas’ new abortion law. The Supreme Court previously declined to act on the near-total abortion ban, making next week’s proceedings the first time the high court is stepping in on lawsuits seeking to stop it.

The court will consider two suits against the law, commonly referred to as Senate Bill 8, which blocks abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. One is waged by the federal government, the other by a group of abortion providers and advocates.

The Supreme Court’s review will focus on how SB 8 is enforced, not abortion rights themselves. It’s hard to predict what the court could decide, but its ruling will likely determine the future of abortion care in Texas and shape the legal battles to come.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/29/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court/

[elleng]

1. 'The Supreme Court's review will focus on how SB 8 is enforced, not abortion rights themselves.'

[tymorial]

2. With the 3 new right wing assholes, I don't hold much hope

I will hope, pray and keep my fingers crossed but the right has shown that they will abuse their legislative power whenever given the chance. Deputizing private citizens to enforce their regressive ban is certainly brazen. Conservatives are basically telling America that they can do whatever they want because they now hold a majority on the court. It doesn't matter that the gross majority disagree. The senate is so broken and corrupt. That Wyoming with a barely 600k population has the same voting power as California with nearly 40 million, New York with 20 or even Rhode Island which though small has twice as many people as Wyoming is ridiculous. Lifetime judicial positions and executive appointments are able to be influenced and decided by a super minority. I can't imagine the framers expected that.