Lol. Reporters really need to look in the mirror; they're the ones sowing a lot of the fear and confusion by playing fast and loose with the law and the facts. Between misapplying the law and minimizing the legal consequences to misrepresenting the admin’s actual stance on abortion rights,

Yes, but Alito is a racist piece of shit and Jackson is rational and black.

Follow @scotusgate.bsky.social for updates on Danco’s application pending before the Supreme Court in Danco v. Louisiana. SCOTUSGate Link: scotusgate.com/case.php?num... Supreme Court Link: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?... Louisiana’s response is due by Thurs @ 5pm. Justice Alito’s order:

Hey guys, if you or someone you know needs or will need mifepristone now or in the near future, you should know that it is safe AF and legal AF to take it to end a pregnancy for any reason. However, your time to order it online or by phone is probably running out (Monday 5/11 by 5 p.m.). #abortion

I chose to repost some of what I’ve posted about reproductive rights litigation under Trump because I’m frustrated by how misinformation continues to swirl in the media, and on this platform. Make no mistake: I can name the culprits. I predicted Louisiana v. FDA at the Supreme Court. No one cared.

Remember how I kept reiterating that the DOJ refused to defend the FDA? Once Trump took office, the DOJ ceased to defend a single action that protected women’s reproductive health, data, rights or access. Biden & Becerra left us in the lurch. Legal reporters still don’t understand this dynamic.

I'm back to explain more about appellate procedure, and hopefully illustrate how the Fifth Circuit is moving at lightning speed. What the April 20 letter omits is just as significant to the Louisiana v. FDA litigation as the demand itself: a full response from the FDA in just three days.

This point about Mirabelli is especially important.

Cassidy is the senator from Louisiana. He is notoriously antiabortion. He makes up stories about mifepristone all day every day. The “mifepristone isn’t safe” lie and “FDA didn’t evaluate it” and “repeal everything the FDA did” is their current legal strategy. Cassidy’s tweet is an exhibit FFS

And this.

Remember when I said this?

I’ve said all along: abortion isn’t a fringe issue—it’s THE issue ⚖️ 259 members of Congress are now stepping up with an amici brief. It raises an obvious question: where has this urgency been since Dobbs? Why does it take the imminent threat of losing rights for them to be treated as a priority?

YSK that the Trump FDA continues to report that #mifepristone is safe under the current REMS. As GenBioPro highlights in its argument against the Fifth Circuit’s ‘concession’ finding, the FDA itself confirms that mifepristone is safe on its website. 💊👯‍♀️ What will DOJ atty Noah Katzen argue now?

Too bad ACLU sold out to Alliance Defending Freedom already.

I wish our repro rights organizations would tell us what to do in this moment; how to organize; who to call. I don’t think my analysis of these briefs will help anyone right now. Do we call senators? House reps? Governors? Attorneys general?? We need to take action.

I demand our representatives in the House take action. Real action.

We need a *legal* solution. Those people are so certain they're "morally right" that nothing will actually deter them or convince them otherwise. Even if Jesus came back to slap them and say "do better," they'd just arrest & lynch him again.

Useful stuff

We need more than this.

Still waiting for my AG and the rest of the coalition to show up.

I’m feeling sentimental and I just want to say I appreciate the people here who read what I write, tell me they understand, ask me questions, share their own experiences, and also push back if I’ve gone too far. No one tells you how to handle the slide into dictatorship in real life, so, thank you 🌷

⚖️ Mifepristone SCOTUS Update: GenBioPro (manufacturer of mifepristone) files its emergency application with the Supreme Court, requesting to vacate the Fifth Circuit’s stay pending appeal. Link: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Like. Louisiana literally got the fifth circuit to ban easy access to mifepristone because one woman claimed her abusive boyfriend forced her to take it (after SHE ordered it, paid for it, had it shipped to her address, and ingested it) and because it spent $92,000 on women who needed healthcare.

⚖️ This afternoon, as expected, Danco filed the emergency application to stay the judgment of the Fifth Circuit in the Supreme Court. Link: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... #abortion #mifepristone

Louisiana v. FDA update: Danco filed an emergency motion for a temporary administrative stay to allow time in which to seek relief in the Supreme Court (one week). The court has yet to rule on the motion, so anticipate an emergency application. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this but be prepared!

1. Men: stop making comparisons to viagra. Acknowledge that we were right, again, and that abortion is an issue. Ask how you can help. For the love of GOD, stop mansplaining. 2. The Fifth Circuit is conservative. It’s irrelevant. 3. CASA has been distinguished as a non-APA case. Read.

Okay. I need to eat dinner and then we need to organize. What the average person (man, woman, non-binary, trans) needs to understand is that no one represents our rights in this litigation. GenBioPro and Danco are mifepristone manufacturers. The FDA is the FDA — under Trump & RFK Jr.

The fifth circuit mostly agreed with the district court’s ruling — that’s the problem I identified when Louisiana first appealed. All the fifth circuit had to do was reverse the district court’s finding on equities/public interest. It wasn’t a great big leap for the fifth circuit to grant the stay.

Louisiana v. FDA; Missouri v. FDA; Florida v. FDA — three cases the democratic attorneys general should have intervened in from the very beginning. I fear women will pay the cost of their failure to intervene sooner than later in Louisiana v. FDA, now that it’s in the Fifth Circuit.

Hey guys, don’t forget: the state of #Louisiana and its AG Liz Murrill are trying to deny American women our fundamental rights & deprive us of basic healthcare, even in states where we vote for dems and enshrine #abortion rights in our laws. As explained (in part) by Dem AGs in their amici brief:

Remarkable how quickly the Fifth Circuit deployed the ruling in First Choice Women's Resource Centers for the proposition that courts may draw 'commonsense inferences' about third-party behavior in the standing analysis. Both ADF cases; now the logic extends from CPCs to mifepristone litigation. 😐

Holy shit Susan. May 11 never mattered. You made that up in your head.

Fighting multiple battles: •Missouri v. FDA, No. 4:25-cv-01580 (E.D. Mo. 2025) •Louisiana v. FDA, No. 6:25-cv-01491 (W.D. La. 2025) •Florida v. FDA, No. 7:25-cv-00126 (N.D. Tex. 2025) •Purcell v. Kennedy, No. 1:17-cv-00493 (D. Haw. 2017) •Whole Women’s All. v. FDA, No. 3:23-cv-00019 (W.D. Va. 2023)

This is an absolute travesty. The 5th circuit is imposing a nationwide restriction on accessing abortion medication. This is such a blatant power grab and perversion of the law. www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

That’s what it is. Autonomy News is just shitty at reporting it.

The Fifth Circuit didn’t grant an administrative stay, but I expect the intervenors-appellees will file an emergency application. As I’ve predicted all along, we’ll end up in the Supreme Court. And not a single party represents the rights of the average American woman.

The Fifth Circuit ruled today. Telehealth access to mifepristone is now illegal - nationwide - pending the outcome of the case Louisiana v. FDA. It’s a message I’ve tried to convey for months, but reporters continued to write misleading articles about the nature of these cases.

This precient skeet is 17 hours old. Here is the 5th Cir. order, the effect of which will ban telehealth access to mifepristone in Louisiana while the appeal is pending. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is Edmund LaCour, who was confirmed to the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama by the Senate in October. True, the Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee are useless. I wish someone would get to the bottom of that. But ultimately, the Republicans are responsible.

I'm just reading about Trump’s new Surgeon General nominee and can I just say: the man is so fucking abusive. He purposely nominates women he knows will fail. He likes to watch them suffer. He likes to watch other women try to support them, knowing they too will fail. It’s a fucking game.

Even though First Choice is a *religious* non-profit, Justice Gorsuch grounds the decision on First Amendment *associational rights* (not religious liberty); the subpoena itself, before any state court order of enforcement, produces the Article III injury.

Why it’s important to understand the holding in first choice. Why I’m pissed when so called legal reporters get it wrong. The court found that an associations first amendment rights are violated - ie the injury occurs - the moment the subpoena is issued, not when it’s enforced. We can use that.

The NJ AG still has many options available to her. The CPC case was remanded. I followed the case from the beginning, through the state court and to the third circuit - twice. Some arguments were better than others. It’s shitty that we don’t have a powerhouse like ADF on our side. We need it.

No, the liberal justices don’t “think they’re playing 4D chess.” They joined the opinion because the standing holding is correct under settled legal doctrine that now spans 70 years - from NAACP to APF. The outcome is unfortunate but it’s not a mystery. We can regulate but we’ve got to be smarter.

“A ruling in favor of First Choice could make it harder for states to investigate “crisis pregnancy centers” or impose disclosure requirements, indirectly expanding protections of these anti-abortion organizations.” #misinformation #indoctrination #resist

“The Court’s opinion today makes it harder for women to access safe and effective life-saving medical and abortion care, and harder to protect Americans from potential deceptive practices.” #ExpandSCOTUS #abortionaccess

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I assume Hegseth wasn’t sober when he said that

Is anyone still pretending this is a democracy?