Update on the Texas abortion case: as the Supreme Court previously indicated, they
will be hearing arguments for both cases against it - one of them being filed by the Justice Department, the other by abortion providers - on November 1st. What they'll be determining is not the legality of the law, but if the federal government has the right to sue Texas and prevent the abortion law from being enforced. In the meantime the Court has decided it will not block the law... which is perhaps a preview of what decision they're going to make. Sotomayor dissented against that particular decision.
Biden's admin, meanwhile, is doing some saber-rattling warning that if the Court rules in favor of Texas “no decision of this Court is safe. States need not comply with, or even challenge, precedents with which they disagree. They may simply outlaw the exercise of whatever rights they disfavor,”.
This is also true.