Ruth Bader Ginsburg Walked All Over Texas’ Restrictive Abortion Law

For the first time in history, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a major abortion rights case with three women on the bench.

 Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan all played an outsized role in the hearing for Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a case that’s as much about a woman’s constitutional right to choose as about who gets to impose rules around that choice.

 But it was Ginsburg, the court’s matriarch, who seemed the most invested in the nearly 85-minute session on Wednesday. She asked the first and last questions of both sides of the case — the clinics fighting to stay open and the state of Texas — but saved her most pointed darts by far for the Lone Star state....
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