Supreme

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Texas Supreme Court Shuts Down Final Challenge to Abortion Law (The New York Times)

The ruling says state officials have no authority to enforce the law, which empowers private citizens: “We cannot rewrite the statute.”

Lawmakers in other states have proposed similar bans, but have held off in hopes that the Supreme Court decision, expected in June, will allow them to ban abortion entirely. “This ban does not change the need for abortion in Texas, it just blocks people from accessing the care they need,” she said. The Texas abortion law, known as Senate Bill 8, amounts to a nearly complete ban on abortion in the state. Because you can use this road map to keep the case out of federal court entirely.” The Idaho Senate passed a similar law last week. They added, “These provisions deprive the state-agency executives of any authority they might otherwise have to enforce the requirements through a disciplinary action.” The law has been in place since Sept. 1. It has thrown Texas abortion providers into crisis, and similar legislation is pending around the country. The Texas law, which several states are attempting to copy, puts enforcement in the hands of civilians. By empowering everyday people and expressly banning enforcement by state officials, the law, known as S.B. 8, was designed to escape judicial review in federal court. The justices said the law had effectively tied their hands. Wade, which prohibits states from banning the procedure before a fetus is viable outside the womb, which is currently about 23 weeks of pregnancy.

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Remaining challenge to abortion law blocked by Texas Supreme ... (Texas Tribune)

The U.S. Supreme Court left abortion providers only the narrowest avenue to challenge the ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

“We have been fighting this ban for six long months, but the courts have failed us,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health and Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, said in a statement. “The court recognized what we already knew: this law is constitutional,” said Chelsey Youman, state director and national legislative advisor with Human Coalition Action, in a statement. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed with all of those arguments but one, allowing a challenge against the medical licensing officials to proceed. “We will continue to do everything in our power to right this wrong.” The court ruled that state medical licensing officials do not have authority to enforce the law, which bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The law is designed to evade judicial review, a goal at which it has been largely successful so far.

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Texas Supreme Court further limits challenges to state's restrictive ... (CNN)

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling that effectively foreclosed the last avenue abortion clinics had to challenge the state's six-week limit ...

In the meantime, providers have been left with few options for fighting the Texas law in court. Before the appellate court moved forward with the clinics' litigation against the state licensing officials, the 5th Circuit asked the Texas Supreme Court to weigh in on what role those officials played. Besides a single day that the law had been blocked by a federal judge in Austin, abortions after six weeks have been banned in Texas since the law's September 1 implementation date. Texas, meanwhile, pointed to the hedged language Justice Neil Gorsuch used in that section of the majority opinion. However, on Friday, the state Supreme Court said that in its reading the law, known as Senate Bill 8, the officials did not play a direct or indirect role in its enforcement. The clinics warned that those officials could sanction providers for facilitating abortions outlawed by the ban.

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'Supreme' Clothing Customers Brawl Outside New York City Store (Newsweek)

Some people were seen shouting and pushing each other as they waited to buy the expensive clothing released by Supreme in collaboration with Burberry.

"Supreme knew exactly what it was doing when they made this Burberry collaboration [first come first serve] in its stores," one individual wrote on Twitter as they posted a short clip of the fight. The new clothes were being sold on a first come, first serve basis, according to the Sun. The behavior from the customers has drawn some criticism to Supreme as videos went viral on social media.

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Texas Supreme Court rules against abortion providers in federal ... (The Washington Post)

The U.S. Supreme Court left a shred of a case and today the Texas Supreme Court threw out even the crumbs of the case that was left,” said Julia Kaye, ...

But that case has been filed in Illinois district court, and could take years to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court, if it makes it there at all. While Friday’s decision is disappointing for Texas abortion providers, Kaye said, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision was the much more significant setback. “We have said from the beginning that abortionists’ lawsuit should be dismissed, and we’re grateful that the law will continue saving thousands of lives.” Many legal analysts have interpreted the Supreme Court’s December decision to let the Texas law stand as a signal that the 6-to-3 conservative-majority court will either overturn or roll back Roe. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion. In an unusual step, the law empowers private citizens to sue anyone who helps facilitate an abortion in Texas after the legal limit, from the doctor who performs the procedure to the Uber driver who takes a patient to a clinic.

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Brawl Erupts Outside NYC Store During Release of Burberry x ... (Complex)

The release of a new collaboration between Burberry and Supreme erupted in violence on Thursday, as several shoppers brawled in front of a NYC store.

Footage of the fight circulated on social media, which showed several men throwing punches and pushing each other as a long line of shoppers looked on. Although it’s unclear what started the scuffle, a NYPD spokesperson told the New York Post that no injuries were reported at the scene. In another clip captured by TMZ, a group of men trade shots against a FedEx truck in the street before a pair of police officers stepped in to end the tussle.

State Supreme Court Ruling Dooms Challenge to Texas Abortion Law (U.S. News & World Report)

The ruling is a major setback for abortion providers in the Lone Star State who have pushed back against the nation's most restrictive abortion law for ...

A Missouri lawmaker attached an amendment to several bills in recent weeks that would use a mechanism similar to the Texas law’s to sue anyone who aids a woman in seeking an abortion out of state. The Texas abortion ban, in place since Sept. 1, has become among the nation’s strictest abortion policies and spurred attempts to introduce copycat legislation in at least a dozen states. In November, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a procedural element of the controversial Texas law, later determining that abortion clinics could keep up their challenge in lower federal courts while significantly limiting who can be listed as a defendant in a case. “The Texas Supreme Court has ended the lawsuit from abortion providers against SB 8,” Planned Parenthood’s Texas branch wrote in a tweet Friday. “This means that SB 8 will stay in place indefinitely – leaving Texans with extremely limited access to abortion. Nevertheless, Texans are still finding ways to get abortions. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dealt yet another blow to abortion providers, ruling that state licensing officials lack the authority to enforce the a controversial abortion ban beyond six weeks of pregnancy.

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Texas Supreme Court deals blow to clinics seeking to block abortion ... (NBC News)

Texas' high court on Friday effectively ended a challenge by clinics to a state law that banned most abortions by ruling that state officials, ...

“Texas law does not grant the state-agency executives named as defendants in this case any authority to enforce the Act’s requirements.” Wade, the 1973 decision that made abortion legal nationwide, and that the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court is now weighing rolling back or overturning in a Mississippi case. The U.S. Supreme Court in December had allowed the case to partly move forward against those same licensing officials.

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Brawl breaks out in Manhattan during Burberry, Supreme collab ... (New York Post)

Eager fashionistas got physical as they waited outside a Manhattan store for the latest collaboration between Burberry and Supreme.

“I see people throwing punches, people were screaming at each other, in each other’s face,” he told The Post. “You see the action. You have to see it to believe it.” If I get more I will sell those.” “That sh-t was crazy,” he said of the brawl. This was a big drop.” “I’m trying to get some Supreme today, hopefully,” he said.

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Customers brawl over Supreme merchandise in NYC - WEHOville (WEHOville)

As West Hollywood braces for the opening of Supreme, customers waiting in line for new items from the streetwear brand's collaboration with Burberry erupted ...

Fight breaks out at the supreme x Burberry drop in New Yorkpic.twitter.com/TmPTLO0xAq That includes items like the Supreme Burberry Leather Collar Trench, which originally retailed for $998 but is reselling online for $2,039, the Supreme Burberry Icon Silk Pajama Shirt, whose store price was $198 but sold out fast and is now online for a whopping $1,390 and the Supreme Burberry Box Logo Tee, reasonably sold in stored for $54 but selling online for $300. As West Hollywood braces for the opening of Supreme, customers waiting in line for new items from the streetwear brand’s collaboration with Burberry erupted into a brawl Thursday in New York City.

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