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.
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Kentucky attorney general take over defense of state’s abortion law. https://t.co/T5H0MH50Hg
— Carli Luca (@carlimi) March 3, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that AG Daniel Cameron can intervene in the lawsuit blocking KY’s ban on dilation and evacuation abortion procedure. Fed courts have blocked the law, Beshear admin stopped appealing, Cameron wants to resume
Background: https://t.co/AmgbvfcKSc https://t.co/5sg4dO2Jf7— Ryland Barton (@RylandKY) March 3, 2022