DOJ Sues Texas Over Abortion Law: Read It For Yourself
As expected, the DOJ Sues Texas over the abortion law that took effect Sept 1 and the Supreme Court ruled against acting upon.
President Biden’s Justice Department sued the state of Texas on Thursday to try to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which bans the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy and allows private citizens to take legal action against anyone who helps a woman terminate her pregnancy.
At a news conference to announce the lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the ban “is clearly unconstitutional under longstanding Supreme Court precedent.”
The suit asks a judge to declare the measure unlawful, block its enforcement and “protect the rights that Texas has violated.”
Garland said the law is invalid under the Supremacy Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment, is preempted by federal law, and violates the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity. The U.S. government has “an obligation to ensure that no state can deprive individuals of their constitutional rights,” he said.
The Biden administration’s decision to intervene comes after a divided Supreme Court last week refused to stop enforcement of the law, which prohibits most abortions in Texas at a stage when many women do not yet realize they are pregnant.
The only exceptions are when a woman’s health or life are at stake. The law took effect Sept. 1.
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President Biden and Democrats in Congress have sharply criticized the law and the Supreme Court’s decision not to block the ban, which they say clearly violates a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
Read the court filing where the DOJ sues Texas for yourself here:
DOJ sues Texas
The Court is busy doing Congress’s job, so the DOJ has to do the Court’s.Report