Texas and Florida’s attorneys general could soon put the Trump administration in an awkward position over a Biden-era abortion pill case, if a federal judge allows the states to join the lawsuit.
The Supreme Court last year unanimously dismissed the original lawsuit brought by a coalition of anti-abortion groups known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine because it lacked standing and sent the case back to the lower courts. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the coalition’s opposition to abortion pills did not amount to actual harm. AHM then dropped the lawsuit, and three GOP-led states — Missouri, Kansas and Idaho — took it over.
The Trump administration, which inherited the case from the Biden administration, has been defending mifepristone only on procedural grounds, arguing that the three states’ lawsuit cannot continue because none of them is located where the court presiding over the case is: Texas.