Thread by @stevenmazie

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT GREEN-LIGHTS TEXAS ABORTION LAW

The vote is 5-4, with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three liberals in dissent

Majority says “application presents complex and novel antecedent procedural questions on which [plaintiffs] have not carried their burden“

CJ Roberts writes a dissent, joined by Breyer and Kagan: "the statutory scheme before the Court is not only unusual, but unprecedented."

Roberts adds that he would "preserve the status quo ante" and that "the question [of the law's constitutionality could be decided after
full briefing and oral argument."

Breyer's dissent, joined by Kagan and Sotomayor, say "imminent and serious harm" faces pregnant people in Texas as a result of the majority's order.

Sotomayor writes a third dissent and is most pointed. The order is "stunning" and green-lights a "flagrantly unconstitutional law". The majority has "buried their heads in the sand."

Here is how Sotomayor's dissent wraps up. Read this.

And Justice Kagan pens a fourth dissent, just as angry as Sotomayor's. She highlights the deficiencies of resolving such key questions in a rushed manner on the shadow docket.

The full ending of Kagan's dissent.

Somehow, she musters a "respectfully" in the final line.