Biden’s Justice Department Is Suing Texas Over Pro-Life Law – The Federalist

President Joe Bidens Justice Department is suing the state of Texas over its newest pro-life law, which prohibits killing babies in utero if they have a detectable heartbeat.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the lawsuit on Thursday and asked an Austin district court to block Texas officers, employees and agents, including private parties who would bring suit under the law from implementing it.

The act is clearly unconstitutional under longstanding Supreme Court precedent, Garland said on Thursday.

The lawsuit argues that the law, which allows private citizens to bring civil suits against anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion, is in open defiance of the Constitution and make[s] it too risky for an abortion clinic to operate in the state, thereby preventing women throughout Texas from exercising their constitutional rights, while simultaneously thwarting judicial review.

This kind of scheme, to nullify the Constitution of the United States, is one that all Americans, whatever their politics or party, should fear, Garland said.

The White House previously expressed discontent with the law and promised to take action against the Lone Star State.

In a 5-4 decision issued last week, the Supreme Court declined to block the lawdespite protests from Planned Parenthood, other abortion activists, and even journalists.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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