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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSCOTUS unanimously says that plaintiffs lack standing to challenge FDA regulations of mifepristone
Opinion - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-235_n7ip.pdf
RandySF
(69,856 posts)onecaliberal
(35,476 posts)Johnny2X2X
(21,417 posts)They should have never taken this case. They did so only to rule unanimously that there isn't standing.
House of Roberts
(5,638 posts)The lower court had it banned.
Johnny2X2X
(21,417 posts)Thanks.
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Zeitghost
(4,267 posts)And leave the restrictions on the drug in place?
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malaise
(277,353 posts)Another nice Thursday win
blogslug
(38,604 posts)This means no announcement on presidential immunity until next week at the earliest. Good or bad, the Court is not going to release that decision on Donald Trump's birthday.
That decision could come tomorrow.
Ellena Erskine (Mod)
9:25 AM
malaise
(277,353 posts)but I can wait for next Thursday😀
Takket
(22,425 posts)sl8
(16,206 posts)The first poster (Mitch Gordon) says it won't come until next week, the second poster (Mark Walsh - Mod) replies that it could come tomorrow.
The "Ellena Erskine (Mod)" attribution belongs to an entirely different comment: "Thanks all! See you back here tomorrow".
It's much easier to see at the link.
blogslug
(38,604 posts)I stopped reading. I don't like the layout of that site. The updated post window thingy gives me a twitch.
lamp_shade
(15,073 posts)Lovie777
(14,583 posts)it's election year, and the six RW justices realizes it, maybe.
Stinky The Clown
(68,384 posts)I am VERY HAPPY the drug remains available.
BUT
The whole thing remains an issue. A Sword of Damocles over the heads of decent people.
wnylib
(24,103 posts)to seek a situation that meets the standard of having standing on the issue. We have not seen the end of this battle.
appmanga
(888 posts)...to decide the plaintiffs didn't have standing? And then it took months to issue a decision?
This Court is so full of shit.
ETA: this should have been the same outcome for the Colorado website case, but wasn't.
ETAM: Uncle Clarence, in his typical snake in the grass fashion, uses a concurrence to pitch out his far right views in hopes of his ideas as being taken as something more than dicta or as a prod for future litigation. In the same way an association can no longer bring challenges to part of the Voting Rights Act, Uncle Clarence is saying someone needs to argue this should apply to most other, if not all, lawsuits. This guy is a real piece of work.
In It to Win It
(9,090 posts)appmanga
(888 posts)bluestarone
(18,014 posts)WTF?
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,746 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(153,746 posts)Ping Tung
(1,183 posts)pecosbob
(7,901 posts)Takket
(22,425 posts)bluestarone
(18,014 posts)What a joke!
bucolic_frolic
(46,512 posts)In It to Win It
(9,090 posts)SCOTUS took the case and said they don't have standing
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,746 posts)Nevilledog
(53,063 posts)If Trump wins they will take the FDA over and ban it through that agency.
Why anti-abortion advocates are reviving a 19th century sexual purity law
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243802678/abortion-comstock-act
GreenWave
(8,832 posts)Almost all on abortion medication.
Thank you Ana Cabrera and subsequently
elleng
(135,525 posts)such good news!
doctors 'not required to provide treatment that would violate the doctors religious beliefs or moral convictions.
Tarzanrock
(416 posts)Yep. It's an "election year" so the rightwing assholes and the three (3) bribe taking Justices sitting on the corrupt Court didn't want to do anything to futher "hurt" the Republican Nazi Party in its endeavor to create an authoritarian, Apartheid Christo-Fascist State led by their Dear Leader.
Lack of Standing -- there never, ever was "standing" for those Plaintiffs even before that insane rightwing whacko Federalist Society Judge in Amarillo nor was there ever "standing" when the case was before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals when those insane rightwing whacko Justices on the 5th Circuit "rubber stamped" the corrupt ruling of the insane rightwing whacko Judge's egregiously fucked-up decision in Amarillo.
This was an absolute "slam dunk" decision which no Court should have ever gotten wrong. Maybe, the Supreme Court will now get the even far simpler decision on the question of the Turd's "immunity" claims right as well -- after all the law is bullet proof that the Turd has "no immunity" for his crimes and there is a unanimous Opinion on that matter from the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia which conclusively restates this remedial law.
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,746 posts)Link to tweet
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/13/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-supreme-court-decision-on-fda-v-alliance-for-hippocratic-medicine/
It does mean that mifepristone, or medication abortion, remains available and approved. Women can continue to access this medication approved by the FDA as safe and effective more than 20 years ago.
But lets be clear: attacks on medication abortion are part of Republican elected officials extreme and dangerous agenda to ban abortion nationwide. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republican elected officials have imposed extreme abortion bans in 21 states, some of which include zero exceptions for rape or incest. Women are being turned away from emergency rooms, or forced to go to court to plead for care that their doctor recommended or to travel hundreds of miles for care. Doctors and nurses are being threatened with jail time, including life in prison, for providing the health care they have been trained to provide. And contraception and IVF are under attack.
The stakes could not be higher for women across America. Vice President Harris and I stand with the vast majority of Americans who support a womans right to make deeply personal health care decisions. We will continue to fight to ensure that women in every state get the health care they need and we will continue to call on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law that is our commitment.
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