The Biden administration is urging the Fifth Circuit to find that Texas doesn’t have standing to challenge federal regulations protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrant dreamers from deportation, pointing to the US Supreme Court’s recent ruling on an abortion medication.
In a Monday letter to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a Justice Department lawyer raised the justices’ 9-0 decision on June 13, which found that anti-abortion doctors that sued over Food and Drug Administration decisions on access to the abortion pill mifepristone lacked legal “standing” to bring the case. The letter said that decision “underscores that ...
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