🤦🏻♀️A federal judge halts the FDA's two-decade-old approval of medication #abortion pills, but pauses the ruling for seven days so the government can appeal
2/ But… via Mark Joseph Stern:
Whoa—a Washington judge just issued a dueling injunction PROHIBITING the FDA from pulling mifepristone off the market. It directly conflicts with Kacsmaryk’s. https://t.co/ALyxbCG4J4
3/ WTAF…
Via Elie Mystal:
The argument, made here, that third party plaintiffs have standing because “women who have had abortions” might experience too much “shame… or regret” to bring suit against the government… is one of the dumbest and risible things I’ve read in a minute.
Keep in mind that different circuits and different courts have different rules and different precedents even though they're all federal, and that's regardless of specific judges. It's pretty common to see different courts ruling differently like this.
Notably, the Washington court declined to make their injunction nation wide, as you can see in their ruling. It only applies to their Plaintiff states.
Often the judicial system wants to let the processes play out within different lower courts to see the argument from all sides, to avoid a final ruling that misses something.
