The Supreme Court issued a stay Friday afternoon on a ruling that would have imposed onerous restrictions on mifepristone, putting it on ice until Wednesday just before midnight.
The Justice Department had filed its request for an emergency administrative stay this morning, in which it was joined by makers of mifepristone, a coalition of blue states and pharmaceutical companies.
Without the high court’s intervention, the lower court order would have gone into effect early Saturday morning.
The Supreme Court issued a stay Friday afternoon on a ruling that would have imposed onerous restrictions on mifepristone, putting it on ice until Wednesday just before midnight.
The Justice Department had filed its request for an emergency administrative stay this morning, in which it was joined by makers of mifepristone, a coalition of blue states and pharmaceutical companies.
Without the high court’s intervention, the lower court order would have gone into effect early Saturday morning.
Got to. Got to make the Roberts Court declare itself. No hiding on this one (even if they decline to hear the case, that’s still a statement and will be so received).
It’s go time. This has been coming for fifty years and is here.
I am 100% certain that the most corrupt SCOTUS in the history of this country is about to make abortion impossible across this country. This is what they were paid to do. It will be 5-4, with Roberts pathetically trying to make it look close, but it will happen. And in the process, they will open the door to undo every single fucking agency ruling in the last century - every approved drug, every environmental rule, everything. The goal is chaos folks, because fascism ALWAYS wins in a chaotic system by promising clear, simple order. We are so much more fucked than anyone realizes.
Actually this backlash by the rich has been coming a lot longer than that, for the last 90 at least. They still haven’t gotten over Roosevelt and the New Deal.
I don’t think they’ll block it completely - just narrow it in a convoluted and hard to interpret way so that states continue to fight. I agree about the backlash.