The Biden administration urged the US Supreme Court to reject an emergency request to reinstate millions of family planning funds to Oklahoma after the state refused to provide abortion referrals.
The dispute over grant money isn’t significant enough to warrant emergency intervention, US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said in a brief on Thursday.
“This case involves a single discretionary grant to a single state agency, and the amount of that grant ($4.5 million) is a tiny fraction of the state agency’s budget,” the filing said. The “Court should not encourage the invocation of its emergency docket in cases with such ...
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