Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch disagree with high court siding with Biden administration in abortion-related case

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Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch disagree with high court siding with Biden administration in *********-related case

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objected Tuesday to their colleagues’ decision to side with the Biden administration in an *********-related appeal.

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let the government withhold federal family planning funds for Oklahoma because the state refuses to refer pregnant patients to a national hotline that provides information about *********.

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rejecting Oklahoma’s

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doesn’t provide an explanation; it simply notes that the application was denied and that Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch would have granted it if they had their way.

That lack of explanation isn’t unusual on the court’s so-called

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, where issues are decided on an expedited timeline without full briefing or hearings. Nor is it surprising that those three justices split from their colleagues in the latest *********-related action, following the court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. While Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch were just three of the five justices in

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who voted to ditch Roe — Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were the other two — they might be the most reliable votes for anti-********* litigants.

We saw that just this past term, for example, when the court

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in Idaho to go forward for the time being, over dissent from those same three justices.

In another recent order over the summer on a separate issue, those three justices noted in a voting rights appeal from Arizona

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with the Republicans in that case,

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. That was the most recent indicator that voting rights are a wild card heading into November’s election, with those three justices potentially willing to go as far as Republicans want while the court’s other *********** appointees could decide just how far the court will go as a whole.

The Supreme Court’s next term begins in October, and Tuesday’s order suggests that that dynamic is in play with *********-related matters as well.

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