Commentary: Supreme Court decision on Texas abortion law puts all of our constitutional rights in jeopardy
by Erwin Chemerinsky, Los Angeles Times
Dec 14, 2021
3 minutes
The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to allow a legal challenge to proceed against the Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy is on its surface encouraging, but there is much that is deeply disturbing about the ruling.
Although the court ruled that some Texas officials can be sued to block the anti-abortion statute, it also made clear how states can nullify federal constitutional rights through the use of the
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