{"id":899457,"date":"2021-10-19T20:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T00:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=899457"},"modified":"2021-10-19T20:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T00:29:42","slug":"doj-officially-asks-supreme-court-to-block-texas-pro-life-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-officially-asks-supreme-court-to-block-texas-pro-life-law\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Officially Asks Supreme Court To Block Texas Pro-Life Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-officially-asks-supreme-court-to-block-texas-pro-life-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=899457&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">The Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department officially asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on Texas\u2019s pro-life law yet again and temporarily halt the law while legal actions continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/18\/us\/politics\/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court.html\">reported<\/a> by The New York Times:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The court signaled that it may act quickly. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who oversees the federal appeals court responsible for Texas, asked officials there to file their response to the Justice Department\u2019s application by Thursday at noon. The court could rule in the following days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Justice Department\u2019s brief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/21\/21A85\/196650\/20211018120230336_US%20v.%20Texas%20application%20final.pdf\">stated<\/a> that the law is \u201cclearly unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAllowing S.B. 8 to remain in force would irreparably harm those interests and perpetuate the ongoing irreparable injury to the thousands of Texas women who are being denied their constitutional rights. Texas, in contrast, would suffer no cognizable injury from a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a plainly unconstitutional law,\u201d it went on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The brief also requested that the high court go around the appeals court and take it on as a case this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It noted:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In addition, given the importance and urgency of the issues, the Court may construe this application as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment, grant the petition, and set this case for briefing and argument this Term. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Texas\u2019 Heartbeat Act effectively outlaws abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy, when fetal cardiac activity can be detected. As The Daily Wire previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-rejects-abortion-providers-request-to-stay-texas-heartbeat-law\">reported<\/a>, \u201cThe Texas law allows citizens to sue abortion providers and those who \u2018aid and abet\u2019 illegal procedures for a financial reward if the lawsuit is successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Biden administration has attempted to block the law in the courts prior to this most recent effort.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As The Daily Wire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/court-blocks-bidens-doj-trying-to-stop-texas-abortion-law\">reported<\/a>, \u201c[last week], the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the Biden administration Justice Department, asserting that Texas\u2019 heartbeat abortion law can remain in place.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe court issued a 2\u20131 order siding with the state of Texas, refusing the Justice Department\u2019s request to reinstate an earlier court ruling that had blocked enforcement of the law. The order was backed by Judges James C. Ho, who was nominated by Donald Trump, and Catharina Haynes, who was nominated by George W. Bush. Judge Carl E. Stewart, a nominee of Bill Clinton, dissented,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/texas-abortion-law-to-remain-in-effect-federal-appeals-court-rules\/?taid=6168f66c35a2610001ad4f40&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">National Review<\/a>&nbsp;reported, adding, \u201cThursday\u2019s decision comes after the same panel last week issued a temporary decision to reinstate the law after a federal judge in Austin temporarily halted the ban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Daily Wire reported:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After the law was passed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department officially asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on Texas\u2019s pro-life law yet again and temporarily halt the law while legal actions continue.As reported by The New York Times:\u00a0The court signaled that it may act quickly. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who oversees the federal appeals court responsible for Texas, asked officials there to file their response to the Justice Department\u2019s application by Thursday at noon. The court could rule in the following days.The Justice Department\u2019s brief stated that the law is \u201cclearly unconstitutional.\u201d\u201cAllowing S.B. 8 to remain in force would irreparably harm those interests and perpetuate the ongoing irreparable injury to the thousands of Texas women who are being denied their constitutional rights. Texas, in contrast, would suffer no cognizable injury from a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of a plainly unconstitutional law,\u201d it went on.\u00a0The brief also requested that the high court go around the appeals court and take it on as a case this year.\u00a0It noted:\u00a0In addition, given the importance and urgency of the issues, the Court may construe this application as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment, grant the petition, and set this case for briefing and argument this Term. \u00a0Texas\u2019 Heartbeat Act effectively outlaws abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy, when fetal cardiac activity can be detected. As The Daily Wire previously\u00a0reported, \u201cThe Texas law allows citizens to sue abortion providers and those who \u2018aid and abet\u2019 illegal procedures for a financial reward if the lawsuit is successful.\u201dThe Biden administration has attempted to block the law in the courts prior to this most recent effort.\u00a0As The Daily Wire\u00a0reported, \u201c[last week], the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the Biden administration Justice Department, asserting that Texas\u2019 heartbeat abortion law can remain in place.\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe court issued a 2\u20131 order siding with the state of Texas, refusing the Justice Department\u2019s request to reinstate an earlier court ruling that had blocked enforcement of the law. The order was backed by Judges James C. Ho, who was nominated by Donald Trump, and Catharina Haynes, who was nominated by George W. Bush. Judge Carl E. Stewart, a nominee of Bill Clinton, dissented,\u201d\u00a0National Review\u00a0reported, adding, \u201cThursday\u2019s decision comes after the same panel last week issued a temporary decision to reinstate the law after a federal judge in Austin temporarily halted the ban.\u201dThe Daily Wire reported:\u00a0After the law was passed in Texas, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman approved the Biden administration\u2019s request to temporarily block the law; he also refused permission for Texas to pause his ruling pending appeal. Pitman\u00a0wrote, \u201cFrom the moment S.B. 8 went into effect, women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their own lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution. \u2026 This Court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right.\u201dTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton\u00a0tweeted, \u201cWe disagree with the Court\u2019s decision and have already taken steps to immediately appeal it to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The sanctity of human life is, and will always be, a top priority for me.\u201dFollowing Pitman\u2019s ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court reinstated the law pending further review.Last week, The Washington Post noted, \u201cthe U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit quickly put Pitman\u2019s order on hold, and on Thursday it said the law would remain in effect, setting a hearing the week of Dec. 6.\u201dThe Supreme Court previously refused to block the law and notably didn\u2019t rule on the constitutionality of it when it did so. Rather, it made its decision based on specifics of the law\u2019s enforcement mechanism.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}