The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review lower court decisions that blocked efforts in two states to cut off public funding for Planned Parenthood, refusing for now to get involved in state battles over abortion rights. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named ‘Planned Parenthood,’ ” wrote Justice Clarence Thomas. [Susan Collins’s wrong claim on Planned Parenthood and Supreme Court justices]Thomas was joined in his opinion calling for the court to take the case by fellow conservative Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch. That is the kind of split that normally prompts the Supreme Court to act, and Thomas said that is what the court should have done. Planned Parenthood had told the high court that it was not necessary to review the lower court decisions at this time.

Source: Washington Post December 10, 2018 15:06 UTC