“If Texas’s scheme is permissible, no constitutional right is safe from state-sanctioned sabotage of this kind”
The order granting isn’t permanent- the court will now decide whether to grant Texas’s request for longer-term
Depriving citizens by direct state action would be flagrantly unconstitutional, Texas contrived an unprecedented & transparent scheme instead
The Texas Legislature has deputized the State's citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors
SB 8 should alarm the LGBTQ community as we also find ourselves the targets of religious and right-wing ideologues
“The harm this law will cause will be insurmountable for too many Texans, particularly Black, Latino, Indigenous people & low income people."