Justices won't hear states' appeal over Planned Parenthood

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https://news.yahoo.com/justices-wont-hear-states-appeal-over-planned-parenthood-144632901--politics.html

 

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a high-profile case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their effort to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood, over the dissenting votes of three justices.

The court's order reflected a split among its conservative justices and an accusation from Justice Clarence Thomas that his colleagues seemed to be ducking the case for political reasons.

The two states were appealing lower court rulings that had blocked them from withholding money that is used for health services for low-income women. The money is not used for abortions. Abortion opponents have said Planned Parenthood should not receive any government money because of heavily edited videos that claimed to show the nation's largest abortion provider profiting from sales of fetal tissue for medical research.

Investigations sparked by the videos in several states didn't result in criminal charges.

The dispute at the high court has nothing to do with abortion, as Thomas pointed out in a dissent that was joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch. In his first discernible vote on the court, new Justice Brett Kavanaugh declined to join Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch because a fourth vote would have been enough to set the case for arguments. Chief Justice John Roberts also did not vote to hear the case, along with the four more liberal justices.

The issue is who has the right to challenge a state's Medicaid funding decisions, private individuals or only the federal government. The states say that the Medicaid program, a joint venture of federal and state governments to provide health care to poorer Americans, makes clear that only the Secretary of Health and Human Services can intervene, by withholding money from a state.

Most lower federal courts have found that private parties can challenge Medicaid funding decisions in court, although the federal appeals court in St. Louis rejected a similar court challenge and allowed Arkansas to end its contract with Planned Parenthood. A split among federal appeals courts is often a reason for the Supreme Court to step in.

"So what explains the court's refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named 'Planned Parenthood.' That makes the Court's decision particularly troubling, as the question presented has nothing to do with abortion," Thomas wrote.

The dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood stemmed from the July 2015 release by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress of a series of edited videos purportedly depicting Planned Parenthood of America executives talking about the sale of fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood has said it did not seek any payments beyond legally permitted reimbursement of costs.

 

 

Whelp. There goes one of the narratives for not wanting Brett Kavanaugh to be a SCJ

 

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we will see if they refuse to hear them after the next election

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Wait, we were told he was the debbil and the end of women.

[edjr 5,547]

we will see if they refuse to hear them after the next election

 

I don't care who runs from the dems. Hillary, pochahontas, biden.

 

Trump won't win.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Kavanaugh will be another Scalia. If he doesn't think they are violating the constitution, he'll pass.

[MDC 5,878]

 

I don't care who runs from the dems. Hillary, pochahontas, biden.

 

Trump won't win.

I dont think either of those three get the nod.

 

Nominating Hillary would be a disaster. In Trump, they have a POTUS who is almost universally reviled outside his base of committed Republicans. Why would the Dems nominate the other most unlikeable human on the planet?

 

Theyll probably nominate Hillary.

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I don't care who runs from the dems. Hillary, pochahontas, biden.

 

Trump won't win.

 

Want to bet on it?

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Want to bet on it?

Do it ed.

 

Bet him all your cryptos.

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Want to bet on it?

Trying to recoup the money youre about to lose when Trump is impeached in the coming months?

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See I just don't get this. Why? I'm not sure about Kansas but I know Louisiana is always listed among the poorest states, among the highest percentage of population on food stamps/welfare/medicaied/etc.

 

So you know your state is broke. You know your citizens are broke. And you think its a good idea to limit their abortion choices? And that kind of place where trumptards live lol, that's his base. That kind of sh!t blows me away.

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See I just don't get this. Why? I'm not sure about Kansas but I know Louisiana is always listed among the poorest states, among the highest percentage of population on food stamps/welfare/medicaied/etc.

 

So you know your state is broke. You know your citizens are broke. And you think its a good idea to limit their abortion choices? And that kind of place where trumptards live lol, that's his base. That kind of sh!t blows me away.

 

Example of rightists ideology trumping good common sense, stupidity is not the private domain of leftists....

[TimmySmith 2,782]

 

Example of rightists ideology trumping good common sense, stupidity is not the private domain of leftists....

It is, however, the private domain of trumpurnewbie. Too dumb to understand the topic, so he interjects opinion on a different one.

[sderk 1,040]

See I just don't get this. Why? I'm not sure about Kansas but I know Louisiana is always listed among the poorest states, among the highest percentage of population on food stamps/welfare/medicaied/etc.

 

So you know your state is broke. You know your citizens are broke. And you think its a good idea to limit their abortion choices? And that kind of place where trumptards live lol, that's his base. That kind of sh!t blows me away.

Why don't these incredibly intelligent people step up and stop getting pregnant when they are living on welfare?