.MaddowBlog: If federal prosecutors can find some relief at the district court, it might lead to a temporary halt to Texas' abortion ban.
that the Justice Department was prepared to help protect Texas women seeking to terminate unwanted pregnancies.
If the Biden administration was going to take on the new state law, it would have to go much further. Yesterday afternoon, as NBC News reported,The Biden administration is filing a lawsuit against Texas challenging its near-total ban on abortions, which the Supreme Court declined to block last week.
Eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court largely agreed, striking down the bulk of Arizona's policy. Now, it looks like federal prosecutors hope to run a similar plan, arguing in its new lawsuit that Texas' abortion ban is plainly at odds with federal law, as defined by existing Supreme Court precedent.
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