I drew my way through Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s dissent on whether the Court can review and temporarily stop the Texas abortion ban (Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson). Normally the court would stop such a law, but Texas designed this so that it would be easier to claim the Court can’t review the law beforeit goes into effect (even though the law clearly violates current Supreme Court precedent). Decisions based on the process a legal question can be reviewed by a court conveniently allow a court to decide something without deciding the core issue, which is what happened here. That said, all indications are that that core issue will be decided and reversed later this year, as many of us have been dreading since November 2016 (and even more so when RBG died last year). My scraggly drawings with the text of the dissent are below. You can read the dissent in its original format here.

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