SCOTUS Lets GOP Kentucky AG Defend Abortion Law

NBC News reports:

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on Thursday that Kentucky’s Republican attorney general can pick up the legal fight over a restrictive abortion law that the state’s Democratic governor no longer wishes to defend.

Already this term, the court has allowed a Texas abortion law, the strictest in the nation, to remain in force. And it has yet to rule on a case from Mississippi with much higher stakes, which presents a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.

Read the full article. In 2020, Trump promised to shortlist Kentucky’s now-AG Daniel Cameron for the Supreme Court if he was reelected.