The Texas Abortion Ruling is a Bad Sign for the Integrity of Future Elections
Would the Supreme Court overturn results?
To allow Texas to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, five Supreme Court justices decided to play dumb. The ban would be clearly unconstitutional if enforced by the state, so instead Texas empowered private citizens to enforce it via lawsuits, and created financial incentives to encourage them. Justices Breyer, Roberts, Sotomayor, and Kagan figur…