WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that could force all but one of the state’s abortion clinics to close, a sign that a similar law in Texas also could be in peril.
The justices on Friday are effectively reversing an order by the federal appeals court in New Orleans that allowed Louisiana to begin enforcing its 2014 clinic regulation law even as it is being challenged in the courts.
The law requires doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
The legal group representing the clinics says facilities in Baton Rouge and Bossier City already have had to stop providing abortions and a clinic in Shreveport would have to stop providing abortionssoon.
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Scalia is dead. Long live the Supreme Court.
And doctors with hospital privileges are better how? My ears, nose and throat doc without is subpar? Why?
TPM:
Sounds like Kennedy is leaning towards knocking down both of those laws. I could be wrong (I am not a lawyer yada yada), but it’s my understanding that SCOTUS won’t block a law unless there are 5 (4?) justices voting that the law is likely to be struck down on appeal.
Anyone who’s passed the bar want to weigh in?
Maybe things will start turning around now that Fat Tony is “not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead.”
h/t The Coroner of Munchkinland