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Laura Portuondo
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Alabama (and other "pro-life" states') failure to provide basic medical care to incarcerated women during labor is not just cruel. It is further proof that these states care about punishing women, not protecting life.
In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps.
This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.
NEW: Trump and Hegseth's anti-trans military policy is based on unconstitutional animus, D.C. Circuit rules.
The court's split ruling would protect current trans service members from discharge but allow the Trump admin to keep new trans recruits from joining the military during the case.
Law Dork:
NEW: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Emily Waldorf’s case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
I dream of a day when the legal academy spends as much attention to congressional and other legislative reform, than they spend debating whom among us is properly critical of the Supreme Court. Reforming Congress is equally (or more) important than rethinking Supreme Court practice and authority.
The court's split ruling would protect current trans service members from discharge but allow the Trump admin to keep new trans recruits from joining the military during litigation.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
(1) This is extremely bad for women in red states who rely on telemedicine abortions as a critical lifeline.
(2) Nationwide injunctions are forbidden except for when judges don’t like abortion I guess?
I think this notion that the Court’s power is justified by the need to protect minority rights underestimates how much the Court does to undermine minority rights. The VRA case is just one example. Recent religious liberty cases (which undermine women’s and LGBTQ rights) are another.
ProPublica
For a whole paper I’ve written on this, see: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Mifepristone is normally used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol, for medication abortion. However, misoprotol works on its own, and most abortion providers have misoprostol-only protocols ready to go.
