U.S. Supreme Court blocks Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges

[SoCalNative]

The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped a law that threatened to shutter Louisiana abortion clinics from taking effect this week, but the fight over whether abortion providers should be required to have admitting privileges at local hospitals is likely far from over.

In a brief late-night message Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the admitting privileges law be put on hold pending a "timely filing" of a petition for the high court to act on the law itself. It would immediately expire if that doesn't happen. If a timely petition is filed, then the stay remains in effect until the high court rules on the law.

The emergency stay was issued on a 5-4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts voting with the more liberal wing of the court – Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the newest member of the court who faced a rocky confirmation after President Donald Trump nominated him to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy, wrote a dissent to the ruling that was more than 10 times longer than the majority remarks.

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_342fd8ca-2b01-11e9-93dd-4bd3f7100d0e.html

[Faux pas]

1. Yes!

for now.

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2. Justice Boof, of course, dissented

His rationale being that he wanted to see if the law would actually impede a woman's right to health care.

Next time Justice Boof goes to buy beer (he likes beer, and has so testified under oath), I hope he's carded. Then I want the clerk to tell Boof that his driver's license isn't good enough, and sends him away to get better ID. Then, when he comes back with more ID, the clerk should say he'll need an independent witness to attest that he's the person belonging to the ID. Then, after a sworn statement, Boof has to sit through a video produced by the Temperance League that tells him all about the dangers of alcohol consumption, including graphic footage of a liver destroyed by alcohol, the various cancers and tumors that can develop, as well as extensive information that isn't true at all about alcohol, but that is presented as true. Then, after sitting through the seven hour video, the clerk gives him an additional pamphlet that he has to read with more information. At that time, he will have to go to at least two AA meetings and listen to the various participants offer their testimony about the evils of alcohol and how alcohol ruined their lives. Once he gets back from the meetings, the clerk will gladly sell him his beer, but he has to wait 72 hours before taking possession of it, just to be sure he doesn't change his mind.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. can that be made a special Justice Boof-only law?

Beer Brett should have to go through the sequence you describe every time he wants an adult beverage.

The GOP has targeted voters with surgical precision, so there is precedent for targeting Justice Boof.

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4. Justice Boof does have a personal record of irresponsible alcohol consumption

Unlike the non-existent women who use abortion for birth control, Justice Boof has a personal history of irresponsible use of alcohol. So I can't imagine that he would find any of these common-sense measures to be an unconstitutional hurdle to Boof's exercise of his rights under the 21st Amendment.

[Buckeyeblue]

5. So he wanted to experiment by denying women their civil right?

That sounds like some nazi logic.