Wed Apr 26, 2023 – 9:46 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Supreme Court has decided to preserve temporarily access to abortion drugs while the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals considers a more permanent disposition of the case at its May 17 hearing. Is it false hope to think that the Supreme Court might allow restrictions on chemical abortions after the case has been fully litigated in the lower Court?
The Supreme Court’s decision last week was part of its “shadow docket” in which the Court makes interim decisions on cases that have not been fully reviewed and argued. Justice Alito noted that the Justices have been lambasted in the past for the “scanty review this Court gives matters on its shadow docket.” Justice Barrett has warned that “the Court should not act “on a short fuse without benefit of full briefing and oral argument.”
Judges are generally reluctant to make decisions that disrupt the status quo on major issues without full briefing and oral argument. So, is it possible that some of the more middle-of-the-road members of the Court, like Justices Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh, will rule against chemical abortions once the case is fully
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