DC is all about can-kicking.
SCJ Thomas rebuttal:
“But these cases are not about abortion rights,” he continued. “They are about private rights of action under the Medicaid Act. Resolving the question presented here would not even affect Planned Parenthood’s ability to challenge the States’ decisions.”
“Some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue does not justify abdicating our judicial duty,” Thomas concluded.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1492_g3bi.pdf