Texas urges Supreme Court to leave abortion law in place
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Texas is urging the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and telling the justices there’s no reason to rush into the case
WASHINGTON -- Texas on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and told the justices there's no reason to rush into the case.
The state filed its response Thursday to the Biden administration's call on the high court to block the law, the most restrictive abortion curb in the nation, and rule conclusively this term on the measure's constitutionality.
The court's intervention at this early stage, before a federal appeals court has ruled on the law, would be highly unusual but not unprecedented.
In its court filing, Texas defended an order by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed the abortion law to go back into effect after a lower-court judge put it on hold.
