As many anticipated, the right-wing dominated U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the U.S. District Court's blocking of Texas' reactionary misogynist anti-choice "bounty hunter" law. The three judge panel ruled just five hours after getting Texas' appeal that the Texas law could be enforced pending further arguments. The ruling gave the Justice Department only until next Tuesday to make its arguments against the anti-choice law.
The devious law removes the state government from enforcement of the ban on abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest, putting enforcement in the hands of literal bounty hunters who can sue women getting abortions and anyone involved with assisting her. The state's argument to the Court of Appeals was that Texas could not be held responsible since the law's enforced by private citizens, an approach which the Supreme Court said raises serious Constitutional questions when it nonetheless declined to block the law.
