sounds like they may have learned the lesson? i am surprised it is unanimous though |
Decision is based on standing, so the new red state AG challengers can bring the case again after the election when banning the pill wouldn't look so bad for the republican justices. |
they learned not to issue decisions restriction abortion rights in the June of an election year. They left the door wide open for the case to be brought again at a more politically convenient time. |
This is the strongest case for reelecting Joe Biden. Donald Trump will potentially have 3 appointments in a 2nd term. We are toast if he is able cement this court. |
But they also have to find people who were adversely affected by the FDA's approval of the drugs. SCOTUS has ruled that doctors have no standing; they are not affected by the availability of the abortion drugs to patients. So, they have to find someone who will argue that they were somehow damaged by abortion drugs being available to other people for them to have a medically induced abortion. How does one get damaged by someone else's abortion? About the only case I can see is perhaps a father wants the child, but the mother does not. https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/issue-brief-securing-fathers-rights-and-enforcing-their-responsibilities-could-help-prevent-abortion
About the only argument could be:
But. a father would have to be willing to say that he wanted the child and be willing to take the case all the way to SCOTUS to try and argue that in light of the Dobbs decision that his child's mother was taking away his parental rights when she no longer had a right to an abortion. It's a very tenuous (at best) logical argument. Outside of something like this, I cannot see anyone else who would have standing to challenge that the availablity of abortion drugs to other people and their pregnancies, somehow damaged the litigant. I have a feeling it will be very, very difficult to find a case where someone can realistically prove standing to resubmit this case. |
You can spin yourself six ways to Sunday but doesn’t change the fact that SCOTUS is playing politics. They will prohibit abortion drugs and contraception. Make no mistake. |
A bunch of red state AGs intervened in the case after SCOTUS took it up because it was clearly going down in standing. The religious nutjub judge will just reissue his prior decision using the new state plaintiffs. |
Pretty much. |
+1 That’s all this is. |
Because the conservatives stayed consistent and were willing to rule against their policy preferences. Before the liberals on the court pushed policy first and ruled the other way on standing and were willing to throw out a law on hospital admitting privileges. |