[liberallarry]

The Court doesn't take cases that have no political significance. To the contrary. If a case makes it that far you can be sure it has a great deal - and that the country is seriously divided.

[RobbyS]

If the Court had simply struck down the Texas abortion law and allowed the Texas legislature to construct a new statute, then the country would not have been split. But the problem was that they also struck down the much more liberal Georgia law. This is a perfidious use of judicial review.