Posted on 06/30/2015 11:10:27 AM PDT by Morgana
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Monday to stay the order of a lower federal court requiring abortion clinics in Texas to close or remain closed. The order from the court in Whole Woman’s Health et al. v. Cole, Comm’r, Texas DHS, et al. maintains the status quo while the Court decides whether to decide the case on the merits on any appeal.
Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito, voted to deny the application for stay.
Breitbart Texas reported that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld on June 9th the strict abortion clinic restrictions passed into law by the Texas legislature. These are the same restrictions that Democrat Texas Senator Wendy Davis temporarily blocked during her 13-hour filibuster.
Under the law, Texas House Bill 2, abortion clinics must now meet the same operating-room standards as hospitals. The Fifth Circuit ordered that enumerated abortion clinics must be shut down by July 1st.
Pro-abortion groups call the strict legislation in Texas “sham laws” and complain they “are shutting clinics down and placing countless women at risk of serious harm,” as reported by Breitbart News.
The Supreme Court ruled that if the court declines to hear the appeal, the stay granted today will terminate automatically.
In the event the petition for an appeal to the court, called a petition for writ of certiorari, is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the judgment of the court.
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Can a state decide to put in a stop sign without Justice Roberts signing off on it?
Inquiring minds would like to know...
Judicial Activism
nder the law, Texas House Bill 2, abortion clinics must now meet the same operating-room standards as hospitals.
Safe abortions...nahhh abortionists want the money and don’t care if women die from legal abortions
A communists liberal Superior Court destroying a State right to make decisions which are better for the State.
There were people telling me (CHEELEADERS FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY) that this new abortion law was going to stand up in court and all I’ve seen is the law being destroyed in the courts with this latest action the icing on the cake.
The law was passed in the first place to make Republican politicians look tough on abortion so they could win Texas elections in 2014.
It didn’t matter about the courts gutting the bill, what mattered was looking good at election time.
Sad
**Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito, voted to deny the application for stay. **
Again Roberts votes against it with Scalia, Alito and Thomas.
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