Supreme Court denies bid to force faster ruling on Texas abortion law
January 21, 2022 | District of Columbia, Texas
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request from abortion clinics to speed up action on a case in lower courts challenging Texas’s new law restricting abortions after about 6 weeks of pregnancy, and allowing private citizens to enforce the law by lawsuit.
While the justices have allowed the law to remain in effect, they also said a challenge to the law could proceed in lower courts. But abortion-rights advocates say a key appeals court is now slow-walking the case, preventing a district judge from reaching a final ruling.
The advocates had asked the Supreme Court to step in and order action, but a majority of justices declined… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
