Supreme Court's Sotomayor calls Texas abortion case a 'disaster' in blistering dissent
WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday called the Supreme Court case involving Texas' restrictive abortion law a "disaster" and "grave disservice to women in Texas" in a dissent that ripped into state officials and criticized some of her fellow justices.
Sotomayor issued the sharply worded dissent to a Supreme Court order that declined for the second time to send the case sent back to the original trial judge in Texas for further proceedings, a venue that the challengers of the law had hoped might provide them with some relief. The Supreme Court earlier sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which has now delayed a resolution of the case even further while the law remains in force.
Sotomayor, joined by fellow liberal Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, noted that when the Supreme Court ruled in December that the law could be challenged, it allowed a lawsuit to proceed narrowly against Texas medical licensing officials, rather than also including state court clerks, judges and attorney general, as the challengers had sought. But earlier this week, the appeals court asked the Texas state Supreme Court for its views on whether even those licensing officials could be sued.
"Texas wagered that this court would not mean what it said" in its December ruling, "or at least that this court would not stand behind those words, meager as they were. That bet has paid off," Sotomayor wrote in her separate dissent.
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