The Court may have allowed for challenges to Texas’ restrictive abortion law, but it also allow the law to stand
, the Court dismissed the appeal, saying that it should have never heard the case in the first place. As a result, the United States’ case goes back to the lower courts with no new guidance from the Supreme Court and an uncertain future timeline., the five conservative Justices threw out the cases against the judges, clerks, and the attorney general.
First, S.B. 8 remains in effect with no obvious path to ever being put on hold. Even though the Court allowed the lawsuit to move forward against the licensing officials, the Court did not stop S.B. 8. Rather, it sent the case to the lower courts to sort out what the ruling Friday means. That means more delay, something the state of Texas can delay even further by asking the Supreme Court to reconsider .
Second, by so seriously limiting the challenge to S.B. 8, the Court’s conservative majority has clearly signaled what it’s going to do in the other abortion case before it,and the continued protection of abortion as a constitutional right and will be decided by the end of June.. However, even though none of the words in the opinion say anything about it, it’s clear thatand the right to abortion are not long for this world.
In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded the alarm about how dire Friday’s decision is. Her words in full are worth reading:
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