The Supreme Court has never been a transparent institution, its justices shielded from reporters’ questions and increasingly making decisions via the shadow docket without oral arguments or often any writing at all to indicate their thinking.
For women risking permanent injury or death from pregnancy complications, their right to get an emergency abortion (already nonexistent in Texas), exists tenuously in this silence, predicated on the Court’s whims, the speed of the appellate courts, who wins the election.
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