U.S. Supreme Court considers taking up abortion providers' challenge to Texas' near-total ban on the

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U.S. Supreme Court considers taking up abortion providers’ challenge to Texas’ near-total ban on the procedure

by Allyson Waller and James Pollard, Texas Tribune


The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to take up abortion providers’ challenge to Texas’ near-total abortion ban sooner than the high court usually would hear arguments.

The lawsuit has not been heard by a federal appellate court, but the Supreme Court agreed Monday afternoon to expedite providers’ request that the justices consider the case. Texas, one of the defendants in the suit, has until Thursday to respond to the petition asking that the case be fast-tracked.

That development came weeks after the court — in the same lawsuit — declined to block Texas’ new abortion restrictions from going into effect. Justices cited procedural reasons for that decision, which came in a 5-4 vote. At the time, the court did not weigh in on the law’s constitutionality.

Monday’s move also came just hours after the Biden administration — in a separate challenge to Texas' Senate Bill 8 — asked the high court to halt the near-total abortion ban while the U.S. Justice Department’s legal challenge to the new restrictions goes through the courts.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/18/texas-abortion-restrictions-supreme-court/

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