Six Supreme Court justices appear to be leaning towards dismantling the Texas abortion law: legal analyst
Following live MSNBC coverage of the Supreme Court justices pressing lawyers to make their case over the controversial Texas law that all but outlaws abortion, one legal analyst claimed he saw six justices that likely will slap the law down or at least portions of it.
Without naming them, attorney Harry Littman agreed with earlier contributor U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade that the Texas lawmakers may see their law dismantled or possibly thrown out.
"I know it's dangerous to prejudge from oral arguments which way the Supreme Court is going, but as a former Supreme Court clerk, help us to interpret what you're hearing today," Littman was asked.
"Okay, you know, it is dangerous," he agreed. "But I heard six justices echo Joyce who get it, who get that basically now that they're hearing it on the merits, Texas has done something extreme and unprecedented to try to get around judicial review in the first place."
"It's based on a whole constitutional scheme that's been in place for over 100 years, and as Justice [Elena] Kagan said, they've tried to find the chink in the armor, the little way in which the law we have now can maybe be circumvented, and I think six people on the Supreme Court were ready to say maybe so, under our current law you found the chink in the armor, but guess what? We're going to patch up that chink."
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