The court’s five most consistent conservatives — Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., plus all three of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the court — said they would let the law stand while the legal battle over it continues.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court’s three liberals to say he would have kept the law from being implemented while the legal battle was fought, describing the Texas statute as “not only unusual, but unprecedented.”
>The court’s five most consistent conservatives — Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., plus all three of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the court — said they would let the law stand while the legal battle over it continues.
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>Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court’s three liberals to say he would have kept the law from being implemented while the legal battle was fought, describing the Texas statute as “not only unusual, but unprecedented.”
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