The Justice Department formally asked the Supreme Court Monday to step in and block a controversial Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while legal challenges play out.
The law is"clearly unconstitutional" and allowing it to remain in effect would"perpetuate the ongoing irreparable injury to thousands of Texas women who are being denied their constitutional rights," the Justice Department argues.The emergency application places the justices back in the center of a firestorm created by the law that bars abortions before most women even know they are pregnant.
The DOJ says it does, in part, because private individuals bringing suit are acting as agents of the state and the government has the power to protect the fundamental rights of its citizens.But Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, says the federal government doesn't have the right to step in.
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