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Briefs Filed in Texas Abortion Ban Cases Cite Threats to Constitutional Rights, the Rule of Law, and Health and Wellbeing
Citing threats to constitutional rights and the rule of law—as well as harms to health and wellbeing—experts in constitutional law, health care, government, and civil rights filed amicus briefs in support of two cases challenging Texas’s extreme abortion ban.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and 11 Other Civil Rights Organizations Amicus Brief
Amici are the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonprofit organization created in 1963 to combat racism and vindicate civil rights through litigation, and 11 other civil rights organizations. The brief explains that [...]
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Amicus Brief
Amicus is the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the nation’s first and foremost civil rights law organization. The brief demonstrates that the Texas law and its effort to evade the Constitution is inconsistent with [...]
Legal Scholars Amicus Brief
Amici are administrative law, constitutional law, and civil procedure scholars. The brief explains how S.B. 8’s enforcement scheme violates due process and sets a dangerous precedent that is already being copied to other areas of [...]
Integrity of the Court Amicus Brief
Amici are professors writing in the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, and criminal procedure. The brief argues that allowing Texas to evade judicial review of a blatantly unconstitutional law would damage the Court’s legitimacy, [...]
Firearms Policy Coalition Amicus Brief
Amicus is the Firearms Policy Coalition, a nonprofit membership organization that promotes individual liberties, including the right to keep and bear arms and the freedom of speech. The brief argues that this case is important [...]
Constitutional Scholars Amicus Brief
Amici are constitutional law scholars writing in support of the United States. Amici argue that Texas’s transparent scheme to evade judicial review of S.B. 8 represents an exceptional circumstance that the United States has standing [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Civil Rights, and Civil Procedure Scholars Amicus Brief
Amici are law professors whose scholarship focuses on constitutional law, federal courts, civil rights, and civil procedure. The brief recounts the history of Congress’s enactment of Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act in response [...]
Constitutional Accountability Center Amicus Briefs
Amicus is the Constitutional Accountability Center, a think tank, public interest law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history. Writing in support of providers and advocates [...]
American Bar Association Amicus Brief
Amicus is the American Bar Association, the largest voluntary association of attorneys and legal professionals in the world. The brief argues in support of the United States that the federal government’s enforcement of constitutional rights [...]
Texas Medical Association Amicus Brief
Amicus is the Texas Medical Association, the nation’s largest and one of the oldest state medical societies representing the voices of more than 55,000 physicians and medical student members. The brief argues that if S.B. [...]
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Texas and Neighboring States Amicus Brief
Amici are Planned Parenthood affiliates who provide comprehensive reproductive health care in Texas and nearby States. Through dozens of first-hand accounts from patients and clinic staff obstructed by S.B.8, this brief conveys the dire circumstances [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
