The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration this morning in the case from last year where an illegal alien who had just crossed the border wanted an abortion:
YAHOO NEWS – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling that let a pregnant illegal immigrant minor held in federal immigration custody to obtain an abortion last year at age 17 over the objections of President Donald Trump’s administration.
The action by the justices provided a legal victory to Trump’s administration even though the teenager already has had the abortion because it eliminated a precedent at the federal appeals court level that could have applied in similar circumstances in which detained minors sought abortions.
In the unsigned opinion with no dissents, the justices threw out the appeals court decision on the grounds that the dispute became moot once the unnamed teenager had the abortion.
The justices, however, declined to take up the administration’s request for disciplinary action against the American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who represented the girl, who underwent an abortion in Texas last October. The administration had accused the ACLU lawyers of misleading the Justice Department over when she would have the abortion.
The court also allowed litigation to continue in lower courts concerning other detained immigrants in detention in a similar situation.
The high court said that it takes misconduct allegations against lawyers seriously but said “not all communication breakdowns constitute misconduct.”
Considering the girl was allowed by a lower court ruling to have the abortion, this victory feels hollow. Also it wasn’t even a ruling on the merits of the case.
But it is still good that the high court did throw out the lower decision so that it can’t be used to justify abortions in these cases going forward.