Opening line of SG Prelogar's final brief in US v. Texas, the federal government's challenge to Texas's 6-week abortion ban: SB 8 is an affront to SCOTUS's authority. 
It's a smart approach, putting the justices' very authority front and center. All nine care about preserving their power and shutting down renegade states trying to circumvent their rulings; only three care about preserving abortion rights.
Later: SB 8 is "a brazen nullification of this Court’s precedents accomplished by subverting the judicial review Congress authorized to protect the supremacy of federal law."
This is fun: in US v. Texas (2021), SG Prelogar cites US v. Texas (1892) to contend that the powers of the federal government cannot be subject to the mercy of the states.
(File under "plus ca change".)
(File under "plus ca change".)
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