While most SCOTUS watchers will tune in to Friday’s arguments in the challenges to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates, that day also features scheduled arguments in the ongoing fight over Texas’s antiabortion law, S.B. 8, now back in the Supreme Court. Just to recap, the justices last month continued to allow the law, which prohibits abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, to be enforced while narrowing to just four individuals who could be sued by abortion providers and others challenging the law in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is scheduled to hear arguments Friday on whether, as Texas has urged, it should certify to the Texas Supreme Court the question of whether those four defendants–medical licensing board members–have authority to enforce the state law. Not surprisingly, the appellate court’s move triggered a return to the Supreme Court this week by abortion providers and their supporters.

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