Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion law, 1st major ruling on abortion with Kavanaugh on court

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Louisiana from enforcing a law that women's groups said would leave only a single doctor legally allowed to perform abortions in the state.

By 5-4 vote, the court said the restrictions must remain on hold while challengers appeal a lower court decision in favor of the law.

It was the Supreme Court's first significant action on the hot-button issue of abortion since Donald Trump's nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, replaced Anthony Kennedy, who generally voted with the court's liberals to uphold abortion rights.

The vote was not a ruling on the legal merits of the Louisiana restriction, but the decision to keep the law on hold signals that a majority of the justices have doubts about its constitutionality.


Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-blocks-louisiana-abortion-law-1st-major-ruling-abortion-n968766

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Roberts joined with the liberal wing.

[SHRED]

1. Roberts as a swing vote

I'll take it but ... yuck.

[Mr.Bill]

2. It's how we got Obamacare.

These days, Roberts needs to be the new Kennedy.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

3. Roberts is trying to avoid projecting partisanship till a Dem is president.

[Princess Turandot]

4. Kavanaugh wrote a dissent...link..

https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/18A774-June-Medical-Services-v.-Gee-Order.pdf

Please attack CJ Roberts on Twitter tonight, Agent Orange, and remind everyone how little respect you have for the federal judiciary, the Constitution, et al.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Can the Dems investigate him?

I thought I heard that they could do something to get rid of him (like perjury).

[bitterross]

5. Roberts might be smart enough to want to protect his legacy

He might be smart enough to realize that the court that overturns Rove v. Wade is going to have a really, really bad name in history. Sure the decision may last for a generation or two give how they've packed the courts. But the pendulum will swing back.

[Hortensis]

10. Like to think so. But the way the court is being

stacked suggests an eventual challenge to the "right of privacy" from which we get our "rights" to abortion, contraception, interracial marriage, on-line privacy, even to the decision to have children or not and how many, elective surgery, keep our medical information from employers and gossips, and so much else.

That right to make our own decisions about our private matters is, of course, written nowhere in the constitution. Only "inferred" from various parts. Like the Ninth Amendment, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

So it's not exactly a rock-solid foundation even to people who believe it's rightly inferred, while others, like Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, do not believe it exists.

Amazing to think states could outlaw birth control right up into the 1960s, when a CT law banning it lead to the seminal case that patched together a rationale for protecting individuals from the state. Even then that first case only made it legal for married couples, though.

[AZ8theist]

6. OF COURSE KavaDrunk voted to uphold more abortion restrictions....

Does anybody really think this asshole WON'T vote to overturn RvW when he gets a chance???

I'm asking you, Suzy (soon to be ex-senator) Collins??

[Tarc]

8. I sure hope that anyone who goes in for abortion services, anywhere, was a Hillary voter

If they weren't, then Gorsuch and Kavanaugh being on the Supreme Court in on their hands.

I have about as much sympathy for these people as I do for the "I voted for Trump and now my tax returns suck!" crowd.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Yay! That law is just a way to deny abortion rights to Louisiana residents. nt