the u.s. justice department has gone to the supreme court on the issue of texas abortion ban. you ll recall that the supreme court allowed that texas abortion ban to go into effect in september, last month. the justice department is fighting it. today doj basically asked the supreme court to look at the case from a different angle than the way they previously looked at it. the justice department wants the supreme court to block the law, basically, on the grounds that texas can t do something that deliberately violates the u.s. constitution, and then block the federal courts from reviewing it. so, again, the justice department could have gone back to a lower appeals court. . itly to potentially fold that in with the other major abortion case thaz rlt.