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The Supreme Court unanimously rejecting a challenge to FDA decisions that made it easier for women to obtain and use mifepristone clearly wasn’t about the Supreme Court protecting access to abortion. (Even though mifepristone is one of the two drugs used in almost two-thirds of all abortions in this country.) Instead, Thursday’s ruling was about the Supreme Court protecting a doctrine that limits access to federal courts.
That ruling also doubled as a rebuke of the most conservative appellate court in the country.
That ruling also doubled as a rebuke of the most conservative appellate court in the country. All nine members of the court felt forced to correct a deeply flawed opinion by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that would have eviscerated the court’s standing doctrine. This is the third time in about a year that the high court has had to slap down an erroneous decision on standing reached by judges out of the 5th Circuit. It remains to be seen whether this third reprimand by the Supreme Court will have an effect on the 5th Circuit.
