The Supreme Court has ruled this morning that a lawsuit brought by abortion providers against the Texas pro-life law can proceed in the lower courts, but refuses to block the law while during the lawsuit:
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows abortion clinics to continue to pursue their challenge to Texas' near-total ban on abortions.https://t.co/uIydz88kz8
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 10, 2021
The opinion by Justice Gorsuch stresses "the ultimate merits question" of whether the Texas law is constitutional "is not before the Court." The ruling simply allows the clinics' lawsuit to go forward in the lower courts. The law remains in place for now.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 10, 2021
So this is no big win for abortion clinics at all, especially considering the Texas pro-life law will stand for now.
In related news, the Supreme Court dismissed the federal government’s lawsuit against the Texas law “as improvidently granted”, meaning it should have never been accepted by the court:
Separately, the court this morning dismissed "as improvidently granted" the federal government's separate challenge to the Texas law.https://t.co/i8y1XGxN9B
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 10, 2021