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General Category => National/Breaking News => SCOTUS News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 29, 2021, 05:06:53 pm
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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Texas Abortion Law Case Next Week
Katherine Hamilton 29 Oct 2021
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Monday, November 1, regarding the constitutionality of the Texas Heartbeat Act, which effectively bans abortions in the state after six weeks gestation when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
In a surprising order last week, the Court granted review – called a writ of certiorari – sought by several abortion clinics, including Whole Women’s Health and various Planned Parenthoods. Although the Supreme Court granted certiorari before judgment several times during the Trump administration, typically multiple years pass without the justices short-circuiting the normal process of appellate review.
And even when the Court does “grant cert” before the relevant appeals court has rendered its judgment, it usually still goes through a normal process of filing briefs and preparing for oral argument, which typically takes more than three months. Here, by contrast, the justices had just granted cert on October 22, ordered all the briefs to be filed within days, and scheduled oral arguments scheduled for the following week – just ten days from granting review to hearing the case.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/29/supreme-court-texas-abortion-law/
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Should be interesting watching the tealeaf readings after oral arguments are done.