Posted on 10/25/2021 10:14:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is not happy about the court refusing to block Texas’ six-week abortion law.
According to The Hill, Sotomayor has called it “catastrophic” that Texas’ abortion ban law has not been stopped.
In a seven-page written rant, Sotomayor not only attacked her conservative colleagues, she sensationally claimed that the court “cannot capture the totality of this harm in these pages.”
“But as these excerpts illustrate, the State (empowered by this Court’s inaction) has so thoroughly chilled the exercise of the right recognized in Roe as to nearly suspend it within its borders and strain access to it in other States,” Sotomayor wrote. “The State’s gambit has worked. The impact is catastrophic.”
“Sotomayor explained that while she agreed with the court’s decision to hear the cases on an expedited basis, she would have halted the law from being enforced. The justice explained that there are women who became pregnant when S.B. 8 took effect, and ‘as I write these words, some of those women do not know they are pregnant,'” The Hill reported.
“None of this is seriously in dispute. These circumstances are exceptional. Women seeking abortion care in Texas are entitled to relief from this Court now,” Sotomayor wrote. “Because of the Court’s failure to act today, that relief, if it comes, will be too late for many.”
Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to a controversial Texas abortion law.
In briefs filed before the nation’s highest court, Texas officials argued that justices should reconsider the legality and constitutionality of the highly debated Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 in which the Supreme Court at the time struck down laws against abortion in all 50 states.
In September, abortion advocates and providers in the Lone Star State appealed to the high court to hear their arguments against the Texas law, SB 8, before there was a final judgment in a lower federal court “because of the urgency of the harm” the law allegedly causes.
Last Monday, the high court agreed to hear that quickened appeal.
“In response, Texas officials said that the Supreme Court should deny that request, noting that the 5th Circuit of Appeals is due to hear arguments in the case next month,” NBC News reported.
The Justice Department, which has filed suit against Texas over the law, asked justices on Monday to vacate a lower appeals court ruling that allowed the law to stay in effect while it is being litigated. The department’s brief also sought to have its legal challenge to be added during this term for briefings and arguments.
In response, Texas officials argued that the law ought to remain in effect and said that the Justice Department does not have standing in the outcome that allows for their lawsuit.
“The federal government cannot get an abortion, and the Constitution does not assign it any special role to protect any putative right to abortion,” Texas officials argued.
In its previous one-page decision, the Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals set aside a lower court ruling that placed a temporary halt on enforcement of the law.
“Great news tonight, The Fifth Circuit has granted an administrative stay on #SB8. I will fight federal overreach at every turn,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Twitter.
Senate Bill 8, signed into law in May, bars abortions in the state after fetal heart tones are detected, generally around six weeks. It empowers private citizens to sue anyone involved in providing an abortion after the establishment of heart tones.
Shut up ya fat bitch.
They just LOVE killing babies.
If only science could discover what causes pregnancy....
Yes, it is always “catastrophic” when women and abortionists are prevented from murdering innocent babies.
Well, she should know.
I hope the demons are miserable.
Married once, single for decades, no kids.
Typical...
I was gonna say Piss off ya lardassed “wise latina”
:D
The fact that this morbidly obese, type 1 diabetes having bag of shit is alive is proof that Covid is a hoax.
“...that relief, if it comes, will be too late for many.”
Really stop and ponder what she is saying here. It is “catastrophic” that some people will be born who should have been killed. Imagining being one of those kids 20 years from now. If they hear about this and understand what she said, it’d be roughly equivalent to being a Jew who escaped the death camps hearing a recording of Heinrich Himmler lamenting that a few got away.
No, it’s not. Stop being so dramatic.
This is not the Womb Apocalypse you pretend to think it is.
I can think of at least one Wide Latina who shoulda been aborted....
She’s not lying
It will ve catastrophic for those that make a living off this abomination
Also apt
Are Catholics ever punished..
Anytime a messenger of Satan calls something catastrophic, it is good. Hundreds of babies are spared.
Fat, ugly and stupid is no way to go thru life Justice Affirmative Action.
yep and quite a poker tell-usually signals the woman has had abortions herself-lots of the pro aborts are rationalizing their own behavior
Sotomayor is the worst female Supreme Court justice. Even RB Ginsburg was able to present some logical arguments for or against something. Sotomayor is the “Supreme Court Ranter”, not a “Supreme Court justice”.
Right on!
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