Florida Justices Roast State Argument Against Abortion Amendment

A lopsided oral argument Wednesday saw conservatives on the Florida Supreme Court openly disagreeing with the state Attorney General’s opposition to an abortion amendment that could rewrite pregnancy termination rules in the state.

Attorneys opposed to the ballot measure petition—which has received more than 1,000,000 voter signatures—urged the court to reject the ballot measure’s summary and bar it from the ballot. Opponents said the language didn’t adequately describe how sweeping the amendment would be, but several justices rejected that contention out of hand.

“It’s pretty obvious that this is an aggressive, comprehensive approach to dealing with this issue,” Chief Justice ...