Posted on 10/08/2021 9:11:02 PM PDT by conservative98
A federal appeals court reinstated Texas’ controversial "fetal heart beat" abortion ban on Friday night, days after a lower court suspended the Republican-backed law.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay, effectively pausing U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order against the abortion ban earlier this week. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, had appealed the lower court’s decision.
"Great news tonight, The Fifth Circuit has granted an administrative stay on #SB8. I will fight federal overreach at every turn," Paxton wrote on Twitter after the decision.
The appeals court decision means the abortion law is reinstated pending further legal actions. In his earlier decision, Pitman referred to the law as an "offensive deprivation" of the constitutional right to an abortion.
Paxton told Fox News earlier Friday that he expected the appeal to succeed. The Texas attorney general said one of the strongest arguments in its favor was that the law "was passed by the elected representatives of the state of Texas."
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So, what’s the next stale tactic? You have to figure this isn’t the end of judge/court shopping.
*stall
...a “tempory stay” to a “temporary restraining order”...
Lordy Mercy...
This support for killing babies up to the point of the birthing process, it getting demonic. We are seeing a real live “Whack-a-mole” game being played for the life of a baby.
The next step would be the same three panel of appeal court judges would hear the merits of the case. Nobody can shop for a favorable judge at this stage. Then it will likely go to the full 5th circuit appeals court. Finally the U.S. Supreme court will decide this. This is the Democrats last chance to stop this Texas law.
There is no constitutional right to abortion ,just as there is no constitutional right murder.
Those weak,evil judges in 1973 lied to the people.
People doing wrong always hate being told to stop
And they hate the same bed pointing out the wrong.
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