This is the tail end of a thread discussing why it is very unlikely that the Supreme Court will sit on their hands while the Texas SB8 bill goes through. I find it interesting; it seems as though this sort of vigilante law is exactly the sort of thing conservatives (and thus grandstanding jackwagons like Cavanaugh and Barrett) would approve of, but by the same token, the justices have a vested interest in not giving states the power to literally do an end run around them just by declaring that, “The state is not enforcing the law, the courts are!”

Either they issue a ruling that limits this procedural mechanism, or none at all.

They may still take the former path; it’s early in the day. But so far they’ve chosen silence.

/fin

— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) September 1, 2021