Supreme Court considers whether Kentucky's attorney general can defend a state abortion law that bans a surgical procedure commonly used in the second trimester of pregnancy.
that bans a surgical procedure commonly used in the second trimester of pregnancy.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, based in Ohio, agreed. At that point, the state health official who had defended the law decided not to file any further appeals. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announces a grand jury's indictment of one of three Louisville police officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor on Sept. 23, 2020, in Frankfort, Ky.that the appeals court's refusal to let him defend the law has blocked him from doing what state law requires of him. He said other federal court rulings have allowed state attorneys general to intervene during the later stages of litigation.
The issue before the Supreme Court is whether the attorney general can try to reinstate the law at this late stage, a technical point that, given the law in question, has turned the case into something of proxy fight on abortion.
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