Posted on 08/26/2025 9:06:27 AM PDT by Morgana
A federal judge in Maine declined on Monday to block the government from stripping Medicaid funding from one of Maine’s largest abortion providers, finding that to do so would override “the will of the people as expressed by Congress.”
At issue is a provision of the tax and spending bill Congress passed in July that would deny abortion providers Medicaid funding even for health services other than performing abortions.
In a blunt, 19-page opinion, Judge Lance E. Walker of the Federal District Court in Maine wrote that particularly after the Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 that overturned Roe v. Wade, he could neither consider abortion services a constitutional right nor stop Congress from advancing laws to defund organizations that provide them.
“It would be a special kind of judicial hubris to declare that the public interest has been undermined by the public,” wrote Judge Walker, who was appointed by President Trump in his first term.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“It would be a special kind of judicial hubris to declare that the public interest has been undermined by the public,” Not very hard to find those judges though.
Interesting that NYTimes propagandist Zach Montague “forgot” to mention that Lance Walker is the chief judge of the District of Maine.
That little factoid probably rolled under Zach’s desk when he was writing his Dramacrat opinion piece...
SANITY!!!!
IN MAINE!!!
WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT???
Such a simple statement yet so profound.
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