Considering that the majority of the SCOTUS was happily willing to roll over and die when Texas got
minimally creative when it came to criminalizing nearly all abortions (and
completely abandon the "irreparable harm" qualifier
they repeatedly invoked to issue emergency rulings in numerous religious liberty cases during the pandemic in the process...but y'know,
whatever, nothing to see here!), I see little reason to assume that legal viability is even a de facto consideration for conservative justices - or conservatives in general, considering their unbroken lock-step support for every single head-up-ass ruling they issue - anymore.
That said, if life were a Telltale Game (and I have no compelling proof that it's not) this order would definitely be a "Republicans will remember that" moment.
You say that as if Mitch and company could possibly be any more knee-jerk obstructionist than they already are. I'd seriously like to hear an argument as to what's left to lose when it comes to
engagement with the reactionaries (or, as I've posited earlier, even the so-called "centrists") at this point.
Frankly, if this
were a Telltale game, reviewers would uniformly (well, maybe not IGN
) knock the character writing for being too cartoonish and one-dimensional:
Nobody would ever seriously believe a real-life mainstream political party behaves like that.