Louisiana’s law requires abortion clinics to be staffed by doctors with admitting privileges at a hospital no more than 30 miles away. They could return to the Supreme Court if and when that happened, Mr. Kavanaugh maintained. He voted against challengers to the Texas law in 2016, but the dissenting opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. that Mr. Roberts joined focused on procedural issues. The Supreme Court rule pursuant to which they granted a stay, however, suggests that all five of them see a “fair prospect” that opponents of the Louisiana law will, in the end, win their case. In short, the chief justice has shown that if, indeed, abortion law is about to be changed, it won’t be without a hearing at the Supreme Court.

Source: Washington Post February 09, 2019 23:55 UTC