The Justice Department has filed an emergency motion urging a federal judge to temporarily block Texas’s near-total ban on abortions. The DOJ last week sued Texas over the law, which went into effect September 1. The legislation bars abortions around six weeks into a pregnancy — without an exception for rape or incest — and allows anyone in Texas to sue patients, medical workers, or even a patient’s family or friends who “aid and abet” an abortion. Meanwhile, reproductive rights advocates led a protest outside the Maryland home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, one of five conservative justices who refused to halt the Texas law.