Supreme Court set to hear arguments over emergency room abortion access in states’ rights challenge
The contentious issue of abortion has returned to the Supreme Court, with the justices prepared on Wednesday to weigh a states’ rights challenge over hospital emergency room access to the procedure. In scheduled morning oral arguments, the high court will confront whether state abortion restrictions are invalidated by a federal law. Idaho officials say hospitals cannot be forced by the Biden administration to perform abortions in potentially emergency situations – even if the state has a near total ban on the procedure – with an exception only to save the life of the mother. The Justice Department argues the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires health care providers to give “stabilizing treatment” – including abortions – for patients when needed to treat an emergency medical condition, even if doing so might conflict with a state’s abortion restrictions. SCOTUS TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN BIDEN’S LAWSUIT ‘SUBVERTING STATES’ RIGHTS’ ON ABORTION The state can enforce its restrictions until a final ruling. The latest debate comes as the court again confronts perhaps the nation’s most divisive social issue, with several state voter referendums planned for the November elections over abortion rights. That includes Florida and New York, and possibly in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, and other states. The justices held separate arguments last month over nationwide access to the abortion drug mifepristone. Rulings in both cases could dramatically shape how the issue plays out in the political dialogue this fall. The current appeal arose after the Biden Justice Department sued Idaho, just two weeks after the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 ruling striking down Roe v. Wade and the nationwide constitutional right to abortion. In an amicus brief filed with the justices, a group of nearly 700 doctors in Idaho said the state law was putting patients at risk when serious pregnancy complications arose. WHY TRUMP IS DEFERRING TO THE STATES, AFTER WEIGHING AN ABORTION BAN AT 15 WEEKS The physicians said an unspecified number of women have either been sent home, forced to find another in-state hospital, or leave the state to get appropriate care, citing one example. “The risk of infection, sepsis, or other complications is extremely high with a premature rupture of the membranes as early as this one. Another hospital had already turned the patient away — effectively, in petitioner’s words, ‘dumping’ the patient, citing its inability to provide care under Idaho’s total abortion ban.” “This experience was traumatic for the patient and torture for the doctor,” said the legal brief. “The doctor both felt she had violated her medical ethics by delaying necessary, standard care, and feared the repercussions from the State if she didn’t wait quite long enough.” Abortion rights groups say the broader effect is reduced quality of prenatal care, with some Idaho physicians choosing to practice elsewhere, and hospitals struggling to recruit OB-GYNs. A group of 258 Democratic members of Congress also filed a brief in support of the federal government. PRO-LIFE CONSERVATIVES ARE ‘DISAPPOINTED’ IN TRUMP’S NEW ABORTION POLICY, BUT STICK BY HIM: ‘ONLY ONE OPTION’ But the state told the high court its ruling two years ago returning abortion matters to the states directly conflicts with the Biden administration’s “politically significant” efforts to impose federal law. “The Biden administration reinterpreted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to create a nationwide abortion mandate in hospital emergency rooms that accept Medicare funding. That mandate — discovered nearly 40 years after EMTALA’s enactment — has no support in the statutory text. The mandate was an attempt to reimpose a federal abortion requirement, this time through the exercise of raw executive power.” A group of 22 GOP-controlled states led by Indiana are among those filing amicus briefs supporting Idaho’s law. The consolidated cases are Moyle v. U.S. and Idaho v. U.S. A ruling is expected in late June.
Newsom ignoring California crises to promote himself in pro-abortion campaign, GOP lawmakers say
Republican lawmakers torched Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for his national pro-abortion campaign on Monday while California faces several crises they say demand his attention. “It’s certainly frustrating that Gov. Newsom is focusing all his attention on other states besides California,” Assemblyman Vince Fong, vice chair of the state’s budget committee, told Fox News Digital. “California is in crisis.” Fong, who has been sounding the alarm on the state’s $73 billion budget deficit for years, said the legislature and Newsom refuse to “address the structural problems of our deficits,” citing “overspending” and a swath of small businesses fleeing the state. “Then you add in our insurance crisis in California, we have an affordability crisis, Californians are leaving our state because they can’t afford to live and work in California, and we have crime on the rise, we have wildfire risks, we have the need to invest in more infrastructure, we have a supply chain crisis,” Fong said. “I mean, the list goes on and on. And I wish that he would spend the same amount of attention to show us as much urgency for those crises that’s facing Californians.” UNIVERSITY PROGRAM LINKING CHRISTIANS, REPUBLICANS TO NAZIS GRANTED DHS FUNDS UNDER ‘ANTI-TERROR’ INITIATIVE Newsom launched a new ad in Alabama on Monday targeting Republican lawmakers in the state who are fighting against a bill that would allow women to travel out of state to seek abortions. The ad, which shows a police officer pulling over a woman and handing her a pregnancy test, states, “Trump Republicans want to criminalize young Alabama women who travel for reproductive care.” Over the weekend, Newsom also announced lawmakers would introduce legislation that would allow Arizona abortionists to travel to California to conduct abortions for Arizonans. Arizona upheld a near-total abortion ban in the Supreme Court earlier this month. “If the spotlight isn’t on this governor, he’ll do everything he possibly can to ensure that it is,” California Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle told Fox News Digital on Monday. “This latest media blitz is another example of ego getting in the way of good leadership and good governance.” “Critical issues that truly matter to Californians are not taken seriously – such as crime, skyrocketing electricity rates, cost of living, homelessness and education,” Dahle said. “And if he does place them on his radar, Gov. Newsom’s idea of a solution is to throw money at the problem.” BIDEN’S DHS APPEARED TO CONSIDER TARGETING PRO-LIFE MOMS AND OTHER ‘RADICALIZATION SUSPECTS’ DOCS SHOW The California state auditor found that several agencies spent $24 billion in state funding over the past five years administering at least 30 programs dedicated to tackling the homelessness crisis, but failed to accurately track how the money was spent or whether it was successful. The report, released this month, said the state also failed to collect and evaluate outcome data for these programs due to the lack of a consistent method. The audit’s findings “highlight the significant progress made in recent years to address homelessness at the state level, including the completion of a statewide assessment of homelessness programs,” a senior spokesperson for the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (CICH), which coordinates homeless programs across the state, told Fox News Digital, noting that the responsibility for collecting the data falls on local governments. BIDEN’S DHS APPEARED TO CONSIDER TARGETING PRO-LIFE MOMS AND OTHER ‘RADICALIZATION SUSPECTS’ DOCS SHOW California was one of several blue states that expanded abortion access following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in summer 2022. In an interview with MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Sunday, Newsom cited efforts in Tennessee, Idaho and Oklahoma to restrict abortion as attacks “happening in real time,” and stated the “response must be in real time to be more assertive and proactive.” “Not enough attention has been placed on the fact that we’re not just criminalizing women’s access to reproductive care in certain states, now we’re criminalizing their travel,” Newsom said.
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DEARBORN, Mich. — Former President Trump is gaining momentum among voters in the city who are dissatisfied with how the Biden administration has handled the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. “This is not something that we can look at and say, well, what’s the worst of the two or the lesser of two evils? There is no greater evil than a genocide,” Samraa Luqman, who worked as the Abandon Biden co-chair in Michigan, told Fox News Digital. “And Biden has proven that he has the capability to do the greater of the evils.” The comments come as the Detroit suburb has become the center of a growing movement to resist the re-election of President Biden, with the city’s large Arab American and Muslim population expressing deep dissatisfaction with U.S. foreign policy under the president’s leadership. That dissatisfaction caused both the “Listen to Michigan” and “Abandon Biden” movements to gain steam in Dearborn ahead of the state’s Democrat primary in February, with both campaigns encouraging voters to show a lack of support for the president at the polls. DEARBORN ‘UNCOMMITTEDS’ PLAN TO MAKE ‘EXAMPLE’ OF BIDEN, TURN PARTY AGAINST JEWISH STATE One way voters showed their lack of support was by marking “uncommitted” on their ballots instead of voting for Biden, with more than 100,000 such voters making the selection in the Democrat primary. But Luqman noted that another 30,000 crossed over to the Republican primary and cast a vote for “uncommitted” as well, a message that these typically dependable Democrat voters were willing to vote for the GOP to get rid of Biden. According to Luqman, the Abandon Biden movement is focused on beating Biden in the general election by any means necessary, including voting for Trump. Despite the significant differences she has with the former president, such a vote is one Luqman herself is seriously considering. “I ran as a Democrat for an elected position two years ago. In 2020, I voted by writing in Bernie Sanders’ name to show you how far left of the spectrum I was,” Luqman said. “And for me to sit here today and tell you I’m OK with a Trump presidency; I’m OK with even the thought of going in and voting for Trump in order to oust Biden, which really shows you the level of dismay, disgust and upset that we have towards Biden.” Luqman is not alone in the growing movement, which also includes area activist Mike Hachem, who has been working to help a movement of Abandon Biden voters toward casting their ballot for Trump. “Joe Biden has shot the minority vote in the back … especially Arab Americans,” Hanchem told Fox News Digital. “He promised us so many things. … He promised us peace. He promised us a stronger Middle East. He promised better diplomacy.” Hanchem also said that many within his community share values more aligned with the Republican Party, noting that many Arab Americans are socially conservative, while a large percentage of the community are business owners. Combined with the conflict in Gaza, Hachem said many within the community are starting to trend toward support of Trump. DEARBORN ACTIVISTS’ PUSH TO BAIL ON BIDEN SPREADS TO OTHER KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES Most of the pushback against Biden in Dearborn has centered around the president’s support of Israel during its offensive in Gaza, with many area voters arguing the continued siege constitutes a genocide. The anger over the war has also led to controversial rhetoric being heard from Dearborn activists, including a rally on the last Friday of Ramadan that featured one activist leading rallygoers in chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” In the aftermath of the rally, the Biden campaign denounced the rhetoric and told Fox News Digital that it did not want the votes of those doing the chants. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign would not say whether it would welcome support from those who made the chants. Luqman said that those making the chants did not represent that overall community in Dearborn, but she also said Biden would not be able to earn many votes from local residents even if he did welcome all support. “He could pull a Jesus and resurrect all the lives that were lost. And then I’d consider voting for him again. But aside from that, there really isn’t much he could do otherwise,” Luqman said of Biden. ‘DEATH TO AMERICA,’ ‘DEATH TO ISRAEL’ CHANTS POUR OUT OF MUSLIM PROTESTERS IN MICHIGAN ON LAST DAY OF RAMADAN That disdain is shared by many Dearborn-area activists and religious leaders, who say the president has permanently lost their support. “For many people, this is already out the window,” Islamic House of Wisdom Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi told Fox News Digital of the idea that local voters could go back to supporting Biden. Elahi expressed some openness to supporting Trump as well, though he said he would like to see how the situation develops in Gaza between now and November before making a final decision. Another religious leader in the Dearborn area, Islamic Center of Detroit Executive Director Sufian Nabhan, told Fox News Digital that he felt “betrayed” by Biden and could not support his re-election in November. Instead, he argued that the Democratic Party should put forward a different nominee with different policies toward support for Israel. BIDEN CAMPAIGN: WE DON’T WANT THE VOTES OF ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ PROTESTERS IN MICHIGAN While it is possible some in the Dearborn community would switch their support to Trump, it is unlikely such voters would be the majority, Abed Ayoub, the national executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, told Fox News Digital. As for Biden, it would be hard for the president to regain the community’s support, he added. “I don’t see our community voting, frankly, for Biden,” Ayoub said, arguing that voters will no longer allow Democrats to run on a campaign of not being Trump. “The threat of a second Trump term is not something that can be used on voters anymore,
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