BREAKING: Supreme Court extends temporary hold on abortion pill ruling until midnight on Friday. The decision means that, at least for now, women can still obtain mifepristone by mail as the legal battle continues. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
A Trump-appointed judge in Texas set off abortion access chaos with what one drug manufacturer called a "first-in-a-century judicial second-guessing of FDA’s scientific judgment."The Supreme Court has again temporarily stopped extreme restrictions on the commonly used abortion pill mifepristone from taking effect, this time through Friday.extends a previous pause from last week that was set to expire Wednesday.
Alito’s latest order gives the justices a couple more days to consider the matter before potentially issuing a substantive ruling, but we can’t know from this latest temporary delay how the GOP-majority court will ultimately rule.Tuesday ahead of the Supreme Court’s order that allowing the restrictions to go forward"would scramble the regulatory regime governing" mifepristone, which has been used by more than 5 million women since the FDA approved the drug in 2000.
The case was prompted by unprecedented lower court rulings from Donald Trump-appointed judges. First was District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas, followed by a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel led by Trump judges. In a dubiously reasoned April 7 ruling, Kacsmaryk ordered the suspension of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. He paused the effective date of his order for a week while the Justice Department and brand name mifepristone manufacturer Danco Laboratories appealed.
They were successful in blocking that narrowed order from taking effect, at least for a few days while litigation continued, when Alito on April 14 granted a temporary administrative stay, lasting through Wednesday night.Kacsmaryk’s order a “first-in-a-century judicial second-guessing of FDA’s scientific judgment” that “prompted immediate chaos and nationwide confusion.”as his, from Barack Obama-appointed Judge Thomas Rice in Washington state.
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