The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a new attempt to block the law banning abortion after the first six weeks. The order did not come unanimously: the ideological division emerges from the fact that the three liberal judges of the Court, now a minority, have expressed their dissent.
Doctors’ appeal rejected
The court then rejected a request from some abortion institutes to expedite their appeal against Texas law, which limits termination of pregnancy to the first six weeks.
The college of nine judges declined to order a Federal Court of Appeals to return the case to a federal judge who had temporarily suspended the law. In all likelihood, the Texas ban will therefore remain long after the New Orleans Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case to the Texas Supreme Court.
The dissent of the liberal judges
The latter is wholly controlled by Republican judges and is not required to act immediately. “Instead of blocking the Fifth Circuit Court from indulging in Texas’s new dilator tactics, the court allows the state again to extend the deprivation of its citizens’ constitutional rights through procedural manipulations. The Court can turn its gaze the other way, but I can’t, ”Judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent, supported by the other two liberals Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.