Post by Logan on Mar 23, 2016 0:46:59 GMT -6
Madison — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate a requirement that doctors who provide abortion have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals — a regulation that has been blocked by lower courts as unconstitutional.
The filing came three weeks after the nation's high court heard arguments over a Texas law that requires admitting privileges and places other restrictions on abortion that critics say would force the closure of three-quarters of Texas' abortion clinics.
The two abortion cases come at a time when the Supreme Court is short one justice because of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and a standoff between President Barack Obama and Republican senators over naming a replacement this year.
That raises the prospect of 4-4 splits on abortion. If that were to happen in the Texas case, an appeals court decision upholding the abortion regulations would go into effect.
Read more: www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/brad-schimel-asks-us-high-court-to-reinstate-abortion-requirement-b99692287z1-373122031.html
The filing came three weeks after the nation's high court heard arguments over a Texas law that requires admitting privileges and places other restrictions on abortion that critics say would force the closure of three-quarters of Texas' abortion clinics.
The two abortion cases come at a time when the Supreme Court is short one justice because of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and a standoff between President Barack Obama and Republican senators over naming a replacement this year.
That raises the prospect of 4-4 splits on abortion. If that were to happen in the Texas case, an appeals court decision upholding the abortion regulations would go into effect.
Read more: www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/brad-schimel-asks-us-high-court-to-reinstate-abortion-requirement-b99692287z1-373122031.html