There was skepticism on both sides as the nine justices of the Supreme Court heard the arguments of opposing counsel this week in a challenge to Texas’ unique new fetal-heartbeat abortion law that relies on citizen participation for enforcement. The high-profile case moved at lightning speed, by Supreme Court standards, finding its way to oral arguments at the high court exactly two months after the controversial law took effect in the Lone Star State. Observers see the case as a way to test the cohesiveness of the court’s 6–3 conservative supermajority that has been in place since 2020 when Justice Amy Coney Barrett replaced the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Some conservatives have been critical of the court’s three newest members, judicial conservatives appointed by then-President Donald Trump, saying they haven’t done enough to undo the court’s liberalism or to protect religious freedoms from government encroachment during the …