Roys office at night - The Monday Morning Memo

“The chief justice of the United States, John Roberts, warned Friday that the Supreme Court risks losing its own authority if it allows states to circumvent the courts as Texas did with its near-total abortion ban.

In a strongly worded opinion… Roberts wrote that the ‘clear purpose and actual effect’ of the Texas law was ‘to nullify this Court’s rulings.’ That, he said, undermines the Constitution and the fundamental role of the Supreme Court and the court system as a whole.

His point was that the court system should decide what the law is, and it should resist efforts like that of the Texas Legislature to get around the courts.

‘If the legislatures of the states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a mockery… The nature of the federal right infringed does not matter; it is the role of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system that is at stake.'”

- Rebecca Shabad for NBCNews.com, Dec. 10, 2021

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