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When it hears argument on Nov. 1, the court will not directly consider the substance of the Texas abortion law. Here are the questions presented. The first concerns Texas' unusual private-enforcement scheme; the second concerns whether DOJ has the right to sue to block the law.
BREAKING: SCOTUS fast-tracks both lawsuits challenging the Texas anti-abortion law and schedules oral argument just 10 days from now. Sotomayor writes a partial dissent castigating the court for once again leaving the law in place in the meantime.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a85_5h25.pdf https://twitter.com/AHoweBlogger/status/1451588171419029504
BREAKING: SCOTUS fast-tracks both lawsuits challenging the Texas anti-abortion law and schedules oral argument just 10 days from now. Sotomayor writes a partial dissent castigating the court for once again leaving the law in place in the meantime.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a85_5h25.pdf
#SCOTUS will hear oral argument on Nov. 1 in challenge to Texas near-total ban on abortion beginning at 6th week of pregnancy. Court grants requests by Biden administration, Texas abortion providers to weigh in but leaves Texas law in place until then.
In September, Amy Coney Barrett spoke in Louisville at the McConnell Center but imposed restrictions on press coverage of the event. @FixTheCourt used a Kentucky public-records request to bring some transparency to the event.
FTC exclusive: Barrett’s chambers refused to allow livestreaming or any video for 9/12 McConnell Center event; newest justice feted with McConnell-hosted dinner, free hotel & flight & personalized Louisville Slugger bat, per just-received public records https://fixthecourt.com/2021/10/barretts-chambers-refused-allow-livestreaming-video-mcconnell-center-event.
NEW: The Supreme Court declines to block the execution of Alabama prisoner Willie Smith, who is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection tonight. No noted dissents, but Sotomayor adds a brief statement expressing concerns about Alabama's conduct.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a99_1an2.pdf
NEW: Texas files its response to the Justice Department's emergency application asking the Supreme Court to block the state's six-week abortion ban.
Full brief is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21A85/197064/20211021113524436_21A85_United%20States%20v.%20Texas_Opposition.pdf
Breyer is the third justice since August to turn away an emergency challenge to a vaccine mandate, without referring the issue to the full court. Earlier: Barrett declined to block Indiana University's mandate, and Sotomayor declined to block NYC's mandate for school employees.
Justice Stephen Breyer turns down request to block enforcement of Maine's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, although he leaves open possibility that plaintiffs can return to #SCOTUS after the court of appeals acts: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/21a83.html
