The Supreme Court again declined to block an unusual, privately-enforced Texas state law severely limiting abortions in a Friday ruling, though the high court’s majority said some challenges brought by clinics against the law could proceed.
Though the court’s conservative majority slammed the door on several legal avenues abortion clinics and doctors sought to use to nullify the statute, they said state courts could act to block the law, and federal courts may be able to limit some fallout from the statute, like the threat to doctors’ licenses. That may be enough to obtain definitive rulings on the constitutionality of the law in federal court and dissipate the chilling effect that has dramatically reduced the availability of abortion in the state.
Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal justices partially dissented, saying the high court should have permitted the law’s opponents to seek to block it more directly by suing local court clerks who accept the privately-filed suits.
Separately on Friday, the high court turned aside an appeal from the Biden administration, which brought a suit on behalf of the federal government to try to block the Texas law. The justices offered no explanation for that decision, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
Fonte: POLITICO
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