#BREAKING: Texas Supreme Court answers question certified by the Fifth Circuit and unanimously holds that state licensing officials do *not* have the ability to enforce #SB8.
The gist: The providers' suit against state defendants is now effectively over:
txcourts.gov/media/1453763/…
The gist: The providers' suit against state defendants is now effectively over:
txcourts.gov/media/1453763/…
What this drives home, as plainly as anything could, is how critical it was that a 5-4 #SCOTUS majority held that state court clerks could *not* be defendants. As many of us suggested back in December, *that* was the critical moment. Today's ruling just closes the last back door.
There's still (1) suits against individual defendants to prevent *them* from enforcing SB8; and (2) state court litigation. There's also still DOJ's suit vs. TX. But this is yet another ruling that keeps SB8 on the books, denying millions of Texans of their constitutional rights.
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