Abortion providers in Texas return to the Supreme Court, asking for quick action in taking up a challenge to the state's restrictive new law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
Providers asked the court to fast-track the case because the first hearing isn't set until December, despite the "great harm the ban is causing."
By a vote of 5-4, the court declined this month to block the law while a lawsuit worked its way through the lower courts, citing complicated questions about whether the federal courts have the jurisdiction to consider it. Now the opponents of the law are asking the court to put the case on a fast track by taking it up while it is still pending before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans.
In their appeal, the groups said the Supreme Court should decide whether a state can construct a law to insulate it from federal court review by delegating enforcement to the general public.
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