republican appointees, seems poised to use it to undermine and perhaps overturn roe vs. wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. and barred states from banning the procedure before fetal viability. tom goldstein, a lawyer who argues frequently before the court, and publishes the website scotus blog tells nbc news we re at an inflection point. i think we re going to look back at this as the year in which conservatives really did fully take over the supreme court and american constitutional law, where they got what they were really looking for on the big hot button issues that affect all of americans lives. this is what abortion rights advocates, civil rights advocates, gun control advocates, the list goes on and on, warned about. with the ex-president s appointments of three very conservative justices to the u.s. supreme court. it s under these circumstances that the supreme court now holds its lowest approval rating,
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this was a 5-4 opinion. conservative chief justice john roberts dissented alongside the three liberal members of the court. speaker pelosi now promising a vote to codify roe versus wade as federal law, in case it s ever overturned. but would democrats ever be able to get that through in a 50-50 senate? not without a 60-vote threshold. not unless they eliminated the filibuster and we know that senators manchin and sainema hae been unswayed on that, so far. in the mean time, the texas law will stand while the battle over its legality continues as pointed out by amy at scotus blog, what makes the texas case so vexing to opponents is the way in which it was crafted. quote, to make it harder to challenge the law in court, particularly before it went into effect, the texas law does not rely on government officials to enforce the ban. instead, it deputizes private individuals to bring lawsuits against anyone who either provides or aids or abets an
we know senators manchin and sinema have been unswayed on that so far. in the meantime, the texas law will stand while the battle over its legally continues, pointed out by amy ho, at scotus blog, what makes it so vexing to opponents is the way it was crafted to make it harder to challenge in court, particularly before it went into effect the texas law does not rely on government officials to enforce the ban. instead it deputizes private individuals to bring lawsuits against anyone who either provides or aids or abets an abortion, and it establishes an award of $10,000 for a successful lawsuit. and so there will probably not be a final ruling on texas until the court is called upon to rule after a private citizen sues someone for violating the abortion ban only to have the defendant cite the roe decision. think empowering dog the bounty
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