The strongly conservative US Supreme Court waited until 24 hours after an unconstitutional Texas abortion ban went into effect to respond to an emergency plea to place it on hold.
By a 5-4 vote the justices decided to take no action on the law that effectively bans almost all abortions in the Lone Star State.
Bloomberg News, reporting the Court’s dark of night decision, called it a “watershed moment,” and saying the Court may be poised to break precedent and strike down Roe v. Wade, the nearly five decade law recognizing women have a right to abortion.
Justice Sotomayor blasted her conservative colleagues.