The suit, State of Missouri v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is an amended complaint to last year’s Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, which anti-abortion advocates took all the way to the Supreme Court in their quest to challenge the FDA’s mifepristone regulations. The Trump administration is facing a litany of other lawsuits from Democratic-led states and likely needs to make the same technical legal arguments Biden did in the mifepristone case in order to stay consistent with the kinds of arguments they need to make in other cases, Julia Kaye, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project, told HuffPost. The Trump administration essentially underlined the flaws that Biden’s DOJ pointed out in the original motion to dismiss, including that the states bringing the suit have no legal standing to challenge the FDA’s mifepristone regulations.
Author: Alanna Vagianos
Published at: 2025-05-05 22:28:37
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