Posted on 06/26/2024 11:14:24 AM PDT by Morgana
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court admitted to mistakenly publishing a document online concerning a pending abortion case. Bloomberg Law obtained the document before it was promptly taken down from the website.
According to Supreme Court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe, the document was “inadvertently and briefly uploaded” to the court’s website. McCabe clarified that the ruling itself “has not been released.”
It remains unclear whether the document was a draft decision, the final decision, or something else entirely. Either way, Bloomberg said it appeared the Supreme Court is going to side with Biden officials in their attempt to force Idaho to allow aboritons above and beyond that it’s law allows.
The Biden administration sued the state of Idaho in 2022 “claiming that it could use [EMTALA] to … force emergency room doctors to perform abortions that are unlawful in Idaho.”
Republican Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed a brief petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Biden administration from invoking a 1986 federal statute to override his state’s pro-life law.
“The whole point of Dobbs was to restore to the states their authority to regulate abortion. Yet the administration seeks to thwart Idaho’s exercise of self-government on this important topic,” the brief stated. It called the Biden administration’s “claimed abortion mandate” under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) “imaginary.”
“The Medicare Act generally — and EMTALA specifically — preserve the right of states to regulate the practice of medicine, including on the issue of abortion,” the brief went on.
ADF explained that, contrary to the administration’s claim, “there is no conflict between EMTALA and Idaho’s law as both seek to save lives and neither requires abortions to be performed.”
“After a lower court upheld the Biden administration’s attempt to rewrite EMTALA and prevented Idaho from enforcing its law,” the legal group explained, “the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and issued a stay allowing Idaho to continue to protect the lives of women and their unborn children as the litigation continues.”
In comments to ADF, Labrador said: “Despite the portrayal by the media and the Biden administration, both Idaho law and EMTALA share a consistent goal: to protect everyone’s life, including unborn children.”
“Idaho’s law is perfectly consistent with EMTALA, which provides explicit protections for ‘unborn children’ in four separate places,” he added.
“The notion that EMTALA requires doctors to perform abortions is absurd,” stressed the attorney general. “We are asking the Supreme Court to end the administration’s unlawful overreach and to respect the people of Idaho’s decision to protect life.”
President Ronald Reagan signed EMTALA into law in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). According to the federal government-run Medicare website, the purpose of the legislation was to “ensure public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay.”
During his presidency, Reagan was widely known as a staunch opponent of legalized abortion. Two years after signing EMTALA, he urged Congress to pass a pro-life law, stating that no one is “more powerless than the unborn.”
Last month, Labrador indicated he was “pleased and encouraged by the Supreme Court’s decision” to hear his case and issue a stay on the lower court ruling.
“The federal government has been wrong from day one,” he said at the time. “Federal law does not preempt Idaho’s Defense of Life Act.”
Has anyone else heard of this?
Someone tell me what is going on before my head explodes!!
Jim? Anyone?
I don’t know what the heck is going on in the USA anymore.
This is Sotomyeror again, leaking stuff so she can get anyone else on SCOTUS killed — they all hate her.
The fact that they agreed to hear this case was a very bad sign. That snake Roberts has been looking to ‘fix” the Dodd decision. I would not be surprised if he was the leaker.
Almost any doctor would perform such a procedure if it was an emergency AND was required to protect the life of the mother, or at least give the mother a chance to make an informed decision. But we all know that it would become common knowledge that certain ERs would perform the procedures “no questions asked”.
I’m looking for my duct tape right now. I need to wrap it around my head so when my head does explode I’ll at least have the pieces of my skull to take to the ER and they may put it back together.
I dare not tell them why it exploded.
Then watch the ERs become flooded with people seeking abortions just like they are will illegals walking into the ER with a case of the sniffles.
It’s possible we’re being punked.
It’s certain that the democrats, who 100% all worship satan, want to kill any baby they can get their bloody hands on.
Its Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett playing games again. This allows both the left to claim victory and the right to say, “Don’t worry, it was just a DIG (dismissed as improvidently granted).” Don’t be fooled. This and the standing decision in one of the other cases today are pure politics disguised as reasoned argument.
“It’s possible we’re being punked.”
It would need to be a very elaborate hoax, since it was released by the Supreme Court Media Office and then retracted because the opinion hasn’t been properly rendered by the Court.
The idea that someone in the Supreme Court Media Office is capable of “punking” We the People is not, IMHO, absurd.
Don’t worry about it. Either America will have a nuclear war by provoking Russia into one, or superintelligent AI will decide we are spurious and kill all humanity.
So there will be no unborn people to worry about.
And this will happen a lot sooner than anyone thinks.
The government is not going to be able to save a society that’s hell-bent on destroying itself. More likely, they’ll want to help in any way they can.
Good point. I don't know if you meant it like this, but this could be a Dim SCOTUS or staffer trying to stoke the fires in an election year to stir up the baby butcher voters.
Guess the left’s attack on the court did the job or maybe more threats and intimidation behind the scenes. Either way they caved to blatant government censorship.
Are we now Brazil with even SCOTUS in the tank for the insurgents? Sad day for America.
Yep. And everything in ER is crazy expensive. Certain ERs will essentially become hugely profitable abortion mills. The prices will be astronomical, and insurance/medicare/medicaid will foot the bill.
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Like I said, and it’s obvious, if the States cooked up charges against Biden, the SCOTUS would be holding an Emergency Session that night.
They can throw out their regular procedures just like the FBi and Comey did. They said they couldn’t speak on on-going cases, but waived that to attack Trump. Ask Jack Smith if they have to stand down before an Election.
Roberts Hates Trump, and is part of the Deep State. He ran the FISA Court when they were trying to imprison Trump.
I don’t know how many times people need to see it.
The word “inadvertent” is wrong here, this was an on-purpose “leak” so “Joe” can use this to hammer Trump in the so-called “debate” tomorrow night. This is my guess.
Seems like that falls under assisted suicide.
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