WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.
Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.
The Biden administration had asked the justices to throw out the lower court order, arguing that hospitals have to perform abortions in emergency situations under federal law. The administration pointed to the Supreme Court’s action in a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues.
The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.
Without detailing their reasoning
As if we don’t already know.
Without detailing their pre-employment of Project 2025 tenets…
I need more coffee, it took me a moment to figure out what that headline actually meant.
They’re allowing (lets stand) not allowing (barring) something that goes against (violate) the thing that’s not allowed (ban)
Basically the supreme Court is allowing Texas to ban abortions. This ruling barrs, prevents, an exception to that ban.
Me too - that was poorly worded.
What happened to SCOTUS not stirring things up less than a month before the election? I’m actually glad they did this, as it will motivate a lot of people to vote DEM.
RBG must be rolling in her grave over what’s happened to her beloved court.
She was a great justice, and not retiring was the greatest mistake of her career. Anyone doing Zombie RBG for Hallowe’en?
I look forward to stacking the court.
I hate this phrasing. It’s not stacking the court. It’s fixing perceived political bias in the court back to neutral where it belongs.
Or just fix the problem at its source, and disallow judges from holding a political party.
The entire reason that they’re appointed positions in the first place was to prevent just that. The actual problem is that these are lifetime appointments with no way to remove them. What we really need is some damn term limits.
Biden will get to it one of these days!
The Supreme Court is illegitimate
So we need to create a new underground rail road for women. Let’s get women and families out of these areas. Red states don’t deserve them. Kindness always wins
Texas actually made it punishable to help a woman leave the state to get an abortion.
Well, that’s why this would be an underground railroad. If it was legal there wouldn’t be any need to hide it.
So be good at it.
Multiple normal states have already passed laws that protect women from any persecution for laws restricting their bodily freedoms. Mine included. And Ya they can try to take the women back but theres no way to tell why a woman left. It’s way easier to move a willing person over someone who is surrounded by a supportive community. I’d imagine this organization would help LGBTQ+ people escape as well.
I assume that’s part of the conservative goal due to how the senate works. They’re gerrymandering the shit out of house seats and hoping for a liberal flight so they can control government with their ever shrinking minority.
Red states wondering where all the entwives went…
Liberal flight is the only way they’ll learn. Even more so when they flee to neighboring rational states. Additionally with women regardless of location lean left. Outside of having check points in and out of red states, and know all women’s current pregnancy status. Enough women will leave to the point their male to female ratio is too out of balance and their populations years down the road.
The US supreme banana court is a terrorist organization.
Now I know why we kept Guantanamo Bay around.
I call them the American Mullahs. We all have to follow their pronouncements and there’s fuck all we can do to get rid of them until they die.
There’s a lot we can do about it, actually. We can expand the court, we can get guillotines, we can disband their institution.
And when are you planning to lead this revolution? Where and when does the mob gather?
So, now they can just make arbitrary decisions without explaining themselves? So much for our democracy.
They always could. And they’re not elected, so it’s nothing to do with democracy.
But they only issue opinions, they’ve never tried to enforce anything. Andrew Jackson famously ignored their decision in 1832, and nothing happened.
It’s really just another aspect of our society being built on trust and respect. And that trust and respect has been exploited and eroded in the past few decades.
Remember, government only exists by the consent of the governed.
Andrew Jackson famously ignored their decision in 1832, and nothing happened.
Even genocidal asshole racist clocks are right twice a day, or something.
Barbarism.
That’s what it is. Simple barbarism.
