Guam’s Governor Opposes Top Court Review of Abortion Decision

The Guam Supreme Court had authority to declare that local lawmakers impliedly repealed a 1990 abortion ban, meaning that the provision couldn’t be revived based on a 2022 change in federal law, the island’s governor told the US Supreme Court.

Lourdes Leon Guerrero (D) urged the nation’s top court on Tuesday to deny review of Attorney General Douglas Moylan’s (R) request to overturn the decision. Moylan argued that Congress hadn’t given the island court or lawmakers the power to skirt the US Constitution’s case-or-controversy requirement. But Congress, in the Guam Organic Act, empowered the island’s lawmakers to give its top ...