Department of Justice files lawsuit against Texas over restrictive abortion law

President Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would file a lawsuit seeking to block the newly-passed Texas law banning abortions after six weeks after the Supreme Court’s conservative justices declined to stop it from taking effect.

Calling the act “clearly unconstitutional” at a press conference Thursday afternoon, Mr Garland warned that GOP lawmakers’ efforts to construct the bill in a way that put the onus on private citizens to enforce the ban was a naked attempt to circumvent Supreme Court precedent and the US Constitution.