Category: Supreme Court

By Dave Andrusko The Washington Examiner’s Gabrielle M. Etzel succinctly describes the Supreme Court’s action yesterday: The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a lower court order blocking South Carolina’s attempt to prevent Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood, sending the case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Gov. Henry McMaster lauded the High …

This is Taranto’s second article on what he calls “comically incompetent journalism” on Thomas. After the first, a Denver Post editor tweeted against him for attacking good journalists, which spurred this memorable quote: I would never attack good journalists, if only for fear of harming an endangered species. My contention is that the ProPublica troika’s …

By Dave Andrusko Just after 6:30 on Friday evening, the Supreme Court issued a one-paragraph unsigned order granting an emergency application from the Biden administration to maintain FDA approval of mifepristone after the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals placed limitations on the first of two drugs that make up the chemical abortion regimen. At the request of the Justice Department and …

Decision Stays Lower Court Ruling Returns the Issue to the 5th Circuit for Full Hearing WASHINGTON, D.C.— On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court released a decision that stayed lower court rulings and returned the issue to the 5th Circuit for a full hearing in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Chemical abortion …

By Dave Andrusko Yesterday afternoon, NRLC was up to its collective eyeballs, what with the predictable—but still highly offensive—action by the  Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate that defeated a Republican effort to stop the Biden Administration’s illegal order to turn Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals into abortion centers. So there wasn’t time to discuss the Supreme Court’s 11th hour decision …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Virtually at the last minute, the Supreme Court announced that the court would extend its stay through Friday evening, giving the justices more time to consider the case. Last Friday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted a request from the Department of Justice for an administrative stay, which preserves the status quo …

By Dave Andrusko On Friday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted a request from the Justice Department for an administrative stay, which preserves the status quo as the court decides what to do with a trial judge decision that halted the FDA’s 2000 approval of mifepristone as subsequently modified by a panel of the 5th U.S. Court …

By Dave Andrusko The Supreme Court, in a one-paragraph opinion, struck down a ruling from a lower court that allowed a Missouri state clerk to be sued for telling a pregnant teenager she must notify her parents before seeking to obtain an abortion without their consent. Justice Jackson filed a brief dissent. The lawsuit was …

By Dave Andrusko Yesterday Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke by video feed to hundreds of law professors at the Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting in San Diego, according to Reuters’ Karen Sloan. The headline to her story read “Sotomayor felt ‘shell-shocked’ after U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion decision.” The lead paragraphs double-downed, …

By Roland C. Warren  The year was 1976. I was sitting in high school history class at the all-boys Catholic high school I attended in Toledo, Ohio. On most days, I may have been daydreaming about playing football. But the lesson on this particular day was the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision. I was all …