On Thursday, September 9, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland filed a lawsuit against Texas, seeking to block S.B. 8—the state’s newly-enacted abortion ban.
Absolutely. It seems like they’re trying to do an end run around the U.S. Constitution and disregarding the rule of law to achieve their ends. But a lot of people are saying that the dog has caught the car. Could this legal strategy backfire on them?Well, I sure hope that courts allow these matters to be fully briefed and heard, and that the courts think about the implications of this kind of construct. This is un-American. This is undemocratic.
We also need action on federal voting rights. We have a Supreme Court that was essentially stolen through the workings of Mitch McConnell and we have all these Republican-majority gerrymandered districts and states around the country that are acting in ways that are undemocratic. I mean 70 percent of Americans support Roe v. Wade, yet we end up in this situation where we have S.B. 8 and then the specter of 20 other states potentially looking to do the same thing.
People need to get engaged. Demand accountability from your elected officials at the local, state and federal level. I think stories are really powerful. Put a face on what this actually means. Imagine if you had not been able to get an abortion. That’s the case right now for women in Texas. We have to show them support.
“I’m so heartened to see the Justice Department file, because it now gives us an opportunity to present this case in a different way, for what it really is.The amount of anger and outrage I’ve heard from women and men around the country that I’ve spoken with in recent days is something I haven’t seen before. I think providers and reproductive rights organizations anticipated this, but I’m not sure that it was on the radar of the American public. Now it is. I think everybody is waking up.
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