“Women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution”
“If Texas’s scheme is permissible, no constitutional right is safe from state-sanctioned sabotage of this kind”
The order granting isn’t permanent- the court will now decide whether to grant Texas’s request for longer-term
Depriving citizens by direct state action would be flagrantly unconstitutional, Texas contrived an unprecedented & transparent scheme instead
The Texas Legislature has deputized the State's citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors
SB 8 should alarm the LGBTQ community as we also find ourselves the targets of religious and right-wing ideologues
“The harm this law will cause will be insurmountable for too many Texans, particularly Black, Latino, Indigenous people & low income people."