Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared to snipe at her colleague Justice Samuel Alito‘s line of questioning on Tuesday during consequential oral arguments over the fate of access to the common abortion drug, mifepristone.
The justices heard oral arguments over whether a group of doctors who oppose the use of the abortion drug can challenge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration‘s rules that allow remote access to the pill by mail or online order. The FDA argues there is no evidence to suggest the drug is harmful, while physicians challenging the rule say they’ve been forced to deal with patients exhibiting adverse side effects from mifepristone, which is manufactured by Danco Laboratories.
Lawyers for Danco and the Justice Department said Tuesday that the physician plaintiffs lacked the standing to
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