The Biden administration sued the state of Texas over its highly restrictive abortion law that the Supreme Court allowed to take effect last week
. The complaint makes a similar argument and claims Texas lawmakers enacted the statute “in open defiance of the Constitution.”
Thursday’s announcement makes good on Biden’s promise to take on Texas and attempt to block enforcement of the abortion law, setting up a high-stakes fight with Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, who are both Republicans up for reelection next year and have vowed to defend the law.
“Obviously, it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion, and so, for one, it doesn’t provide that,” Abbott said Tuesday. “Rape is a crime, and Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.
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