The unusual private-enforcement mechanism allowed Texas to enact a near-total abortion ban months before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. And it prompted a frustrated Justice Elena Kagan, during a 2021 oral argument, to refer sarcastically to Mitchell and his allies as “some ge...
Texas supporting the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program [ICE & Homeland Security Officials].5. Cross-partisan valence: a brief that appears when usually diametrically opposed groups unite over an issue. Like “unexpected voices” briefs (#4), these briefs can also stand out. ...
He was deeply critical of the law which he said had a “clear purpose and actual effect” to “nullify this Court’s rulings, as he stressed that other states –inspired by the Texas law—could target other constitutional rights. “If the legislatures of the several states may, at will...
“Texas designed SB 8 to thwart the supremacy of federal law in open defiance of our constitutional structure,” said Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, arguing for the Justice Department, during oral arguments on November 1. “States are free to ask this court to reconsider its constitutional...