The court’s far-right wing, perhaps in an attempt to keep those two justices on their side, framed the case as a federal overreach into state power.
Turner, Idaho’s attorney, shot back that mental health could essentially open a loophole.
Conservatives have long opposed allowing exceptions to strict abortion bans for mental health.
Justice Samuel Alito, a fellow conservative, picked up on that same theme, repeatedly pressing Prelogar to explain whether the Justice Department views mental health as a way around Idaho’s abortion ban.
That is exactly the kind of political influence that the Supreme Court, especially under Roberts, has generally tried to avoid.
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Locations:
Idaho, Wisconsin