Louisiana hospital privileges
A Louisiana law requires abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges. The law resembles a Texas law struck down by Supreme Court in 2016. The court voted 5-4 in February to impose an emergency block on this law so there is a fair chance the court will take the case. The law had been upheld by an appeals court, so if the Supreme Court does not take it the restriction would go into effect.
Alabama procedure
Alabama banned the type of procedure most often used in cases after about 15 weeks of pregnancy. A trial court and appeals court ruled the ban unconstitutional. The state has appealed to the Supreme Court.
Indiana reasons and burial
An Indiana law forbids abortion for some reasons, such as because of a potential disability. Another law requires fetal tissue to be buried or cremated. An appeals court said both were unconstitutional. The state is asking the Supreme Court to uphold the laws.
Indiana waiting period
In another case stemming from Indiana, a law requires an ultrasound 18 hours before the abortion procedure, essentially requiring a two-day process. The case that stemmed from it was blocked by an appeals court. The state is seeking to let the law go into effect while objections are litigated.
Mississippi 15-week ban
Last year, Mississippi banned all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. A federal court ruled the ban unconstitutional. The state appealed to the Circuit Court. A decision there could be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Kentucky six-week ban
A 2019 Kentucky law that would ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy was blocked in the courts. The case has not yet been appealed.
Georgia and Mississippi six-week bans
Georgia and Mississippi passed bans on abortions after six weeks this year. Neither case has been heard in court yet.
The bill has a “trigger†provision banning abortion completely if the Supreme Court overturns Roe, which established a woman’s right to the procedure without undue government interference. It also contains redundant restrictions that would remain in effect if the two-month threshold were thrown out by the courts, as has happened in other states.
But no matter what he does next, the story Roberts likes to tell—and that we prefer to hear—about the slow, incrementalist, precedent-loving Supreme Court, is falling apart. It’s openly collapsing under the weight of the death penalty fight, but it’s also disintegrating as states vie with one another for more extreme ways to punish and humiliate women. I feel sorry for the chief justice largely because all this is happening just when the court’s reputation matters most. Roe v. Wade is in the news this month not because it’s in the crosshairs (yet), but because amateurs in Alabama and Georgia are drunk on God, and as a consequence, the Supreme Court’s slip is showing. The path to ending abortion in America was smooth and seamless in the hands of John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh; most of us would never have seen it happen. But so long as Alabama and Georgia keep saying the quiet parts at the tops of their lungs, the court’s conservatives cannot accomplish what they had been on track to accomplish—at least, they cannot do it quietly. The question for the chief justice is no longer whether he prefers to win quietly on reversing Roe. He’s going to win ugly. He needs to decide if he can live with that.
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JUST IN: The government has filed a sealed document in the FLYNN case. There's still another month before the next update on his sentencing / cooperation.
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Dotus sounds very medicated right now in the Rose garden.
He run out of Adderol?
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