Idaho Attorney General Takes Admin to Supreme Court to Save State’s Pro-Life Law
“The federal government has been wrong from day one,” he said at the time. “Federal law does not preempt Idaho’s Defense of Life Act”
Republican Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed a brief Tuesday petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Biden administration from invoking a 1986 federal statute to override his state’s pro-life law.
“The whole point of Dobbs was to restore to the states their authority to regulate abortion. Yet the administration seeks to thwart Idaho’s exercise of self-government on this important topic,” the brief stated. It called the Biden administration’s “claimed abortion mandate” under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) “imaginary.” ---More...
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