Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch disagree with Supreme Court’s decision to rule in favor of Biden administration in abortion case | The Times Of Update

Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito And Neil Gorsuch opposed their colleagues’ decision Tuesday to side with the Biden administration on an abortion-related call. The majority of the Supreme Court That the government withhold federal family planning funds from Oklahoma because the state refuses to refer pregnant patients to a national hotline that provides information about abortion.

The order rejecting Oklahoma emergency request He doesn’t provide an explanation; he simply notes that the request was denied and that Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have granted it if they had had a say.

This lack of explanation is not unusual in what is called the court. ghost filewhere issues are decided on an expedited schedule without full briefings or hearings. It’s no surprise that these three justices split from their colleagues in the latest abortion-related action, after the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. While Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch were just three of five justices on the bench, Dobbs majority Those who voted to overturn Roe — Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were the other two — may be the most reliable votes for anti-abortion litigants.

We saw this just in the last quarter, for example, when the court allow emergency abortions in Idaho, to move forward for now, despite opposition from those same three judges.

In another recent order issued this summer on a separate issue, those three justices noted in an Arizona voting rights appeal: that they would have completely taken sides with the Republicans in this case, Republican National Committee Against Mi Familia VotaIt’s the latest indicator that voting rights are an unknown factor heading into the November election, with these three justices potentially poised to go as far as Republicans want while the other Republican justices appointed to the court could decide how far the court as a whole will go.

The Supreme Court’s next term begins in October, and Tuesday’s order suggests that this dynamic is at work in abortion-related issues as well.

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