Today the Supreme Court heard arguments on Mississippi’s law that severely limits abortions. Mississippi’s attorney general, Lynn Fitch, defended the state’s law.. She also has filed three lawsuits against President Biden’s vaccine mandate. A federal appeals court stayed the mandate.
Judge Kurt D. Englehardt, a Trump appointee, wrote that the public interest was “served by maintaining our constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals to make intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions–even, or perhaps particularly, when those decisions frustrate government officials.”
Judge Englehardt does not believe that reasoning applies to women. He had been a member of Louisiana Lawyers for Life before Trump appointed him to be a judge.
See Michelle Goldberg, “My Body, My Choice” for the Right, New York Times, (Nov. 30, 2021), p. A23.
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