So many get wrong, and so many misreport, that the #SCOTUS is to rule on the safety of mifepristone. It is not.
The Court has neither the expertise, the legal jurisdiction, nor the interest in making such a determination. It’s absolutely not what the Court is doing.
Instead, what the Court is to rule on is specifically the legal questions surrounding whether the executive branch followed legal procedures as it acted.
It seems that the FDA didn’t follow the legal process and botched this, and we should be holding executive branch officials responsible for their failure there.
All of the drama protesting the Court misplaces the real blame and lets those responsible off the hook, and is so counterproductive to the goals of those protesters.
@volkris Nothing of what you said is true. The agencies have followed their usual process and the drug is perfectly safe. #SCOTUS is simply being asked to substitute the judgment of any one random Federal judge for a multi-year agency process to overturn any and all agency decisions they don't like. This is part of a trend of right wing usurpation of political power by unelected judges.
@peltast the court documents say otherwise, and the agencies themselves say they didn’t follow those practices.
Rather they say it doesn’t matter that they didn’t follow them.
Again, this has nothing to do with whether the drug is actually safe, only that the safety rules were or weren’t followed.
No harm no foul only goes so far when it applies to legal compliance.
@peltast Again, the question is absolutely NOT about whether #mifepristone is safe. That’s not the question before the #SCOTUS.
They emphatically do not have the expertise or interest in answering that question.
The question here is a matter of law and legal procedure, whether the administration did or did not obey the law, regardless of whether mifepriston is safe.
That’s exactly what so many miss.
@volkris No, none of that is true. Completely made up. Mifepristone has been studied for more than 40 years now. It's safer than aspirin.