The good news: The Supreme Court has put a stay on the Texas law which would have caused nearly all of the abortion clinics in that state to close. The bad news: It means they will hear a major abortion case right in the middle of the 2016 election cycle, which will fire up the extremists on the right in ways we cannot even imagine. SCOTUSblog has the details: Splitting five to four, the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing two new requirements that abortion clinic operators say will force many of them to close.