Well, it’s Friday so that can mean only one thing: The Supreme Court is thinking about abortion again.
This time it’s not just one case they’re thinking about. It’s TWO!
This time it’s not just one case they’re thinking about. It’s TWO!
The first case should be familiar to y’all by now. It involves a 15-week abortion ban out of Mississippi, and the Court has considered taking this case EIGHT TIMES SO FAR but hasn’t yet.
As @AngryBlackLady points out in her latest column we can’t figure out what on Earth the Court is thinking about because a 15-week abortion ban is flat out unconstitutional.
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Really Chief Justice Roberts. What gives?
In addition to the Mississippi case, the Court is ALSO thinking about taking up a case out of Kentucky. Because you know. Why not.
This case is weird because it doesn’t involve abortion DIRECTLY but instead is all about the power of the state attorney general to enforce abortion laws all on their own. So this is a case all about political power.
You see, the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is a Republican with political ambitions, and figures being extremely anti-abortion is his ticket to success. This case fits his ambition.
Back in 2018 Kentucky lawmakers passed a ban on the most common form of later abortion. Both the lower court and the 6th Circuit took a look at the ban and said, “nope, that mess is unconstitutional.”
Lawmakers took a look at those decisions and decided to give up defending the law. Except for AG Cameron, who wants to take this case all by himself to the Supreme Court. And now SCOTUS is thinking about if he can.
When will SCOTUS decide what it’s doing with these cases? WHO KNOWS, but we could find out as early as Monday!
As always #TeamLegal’s @Hegemommy and @AngryBlackLady will be all over the news, no matter what the Court decides. So stay tuned for more. And really SCOTUS. What is there to think about?
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