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Topic: Texas Abortion Ban

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton waves after speaking during CPAC on July 11, 2021 in Dallas, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas AG Paxton: A GOP coward bully

Amanda Marcotte
Pro-life demonstrators protest outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 1, 2021. | Kyle Rittenhouse enters the courtroom after a break at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 11, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. | People display signs during the Kentucky Freedom Rally at the capitol building on August 28, 2021 in Frankfort, Kentucky. Demonstrators gathered on the grounds of the capitol to speak out against a litany of issues, including Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's management of the coronavirus pandemic, abortion laws, and the teaching of critical race theory. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans yearn for their own Stasi

Amanda Marcotte
Reproductive Rights Protest Outside The Supreme Court Hearing On Texas Abortion Law Arguments In Washington D.C., Nov. 1, 2021 (Jeff Malet Photography)

GOP sharpens its abortion ban defense

Amanda Marcotte
Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barret (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can Texas' abortion ban survive SCOTUS?

Kenneth Tran
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Sonia Sotomayor and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sotomayor's scathing Texas dissent

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
Greg Abbott, Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Blocked: SCOTUS' backdoor abortion ban

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Amy Coney-Barrett and Clarence Thomas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla/Mark Wilson/Erin Schaff)

The Supreme Court is on defense

Jon Skolnik
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a press conference announcing a voting rights enforcement action against the state of Georgia during an event at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ seeks to block Texas abortion ban

Igor Derysh
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images)

Don't mock Abbott's "dumb" abortion quip

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

Abortion bans are Christian theocracy

Amanda Marcotte
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema | Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Texas better wake Manchin and Sinema up

Amanda Marcotte
Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Erin Schaff)

SCOTUS just came out of the shadows

Amanda Marcotte
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