'If this decision doesn't cry out for that, I don't know what does,' the Democratic senator said after the conservative Supreme Court allowed the law to go into effect.
calling the Texas law “patently” and “obviously” unconstitutional. Sotomayor said the majority of justices “opted to bury their heads in the sand” when “presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny.”
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas to follow through with the law is the result of the Republican Party’s reliance on unpopular elections and, such as the high court, to achieve its goals. Three of the associate justices who cast the deciding votes ― Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett ― were appointed by former President Donald Trump, who won the White House in 2016 despite losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million.
. Democrats have called for Breyer’s retirement so that President Joe Biden can be the one to appoint his replacement and the Senate can vote on confirmation while Democrats hold a majority in the chamber.
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