"The Supreme Court has allowed Texas's abhorrent anti-abortion law to remain in effect for 83 days," Demand Justice, a pro-court-packing organization managed by former Obama administration staffers, announced in a tweet. "We cannot keep waiting for this Court to act in the interests of the American people - it's time to #Expand The Court."
"Many guessed the Supreme Court would weigh in on the Texas law today but it turned out to be a giant head fake," Demand Justice Executive Director Brian Fallon continued. "It is insane we let the third branch of government conduct itself with so little transparency when it comes to rights this fundamental."
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Fallon is a past press secretary for Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign and worked for the Department of Justice as a press staffer throughout the Obama Administration.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard procedural arguments regarding the new Texas abortion law – which forbids abortion after a heartbeat is detectable in the baby. The arguments were not regarding the substance of the law but rather about who could bring a legal challenge against the law and how.
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Because the court heard the case on an extremely expedited basis, many said that it would issue the ruling quickly. When the court declared it would release no less than one opinion Monday, court-watchers and news organizations readied for a blockbuster opinion on major abortion law.
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Alternatively, the court issued an opinion on a groundwater dispute between Tennessee and Mississippi.
"John Roberts playing 'haha made you look' when it comes to abortion rights is about all you need to know about this Supreme Court. #ExpandTheCourt," Demand Justice Chief Counsel Christopher Kang tweeted.
"SERIOUSLY. AN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION CASE," Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser tweeted, practicing the legal term for conflicts between states that go directly to the Supreme Court.
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"LOLZ at all of us for thinking that the Supreme Court might do something sensible in an abortion case today," he continued. "The Supreme Court is bad, y'all."
"If we still believed that the Supreme Court actually wanted to protect our constitutional rights that went out the window (once again) this am," Michael Davies, who works with the group Physicians for Reproductive Health, stated. "There is a constitutional right to abortion. S.B.8 is unconstitutional and cruel. I can't."
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