So a Judge Tried to Ban the Abortion Pill. What Happens Now?
with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington asking for clarification on Rice’s ruling. “The Court did not address the interaction between the two orders, presumably because they were issued less than 20 minutes apart,” DOJ’s lawyers wrote. Essentially, DOJ wants to know if Rice’s order should or should not supersede the Texas case order due to the “significant tension” between the two rulings.
The Washington case may seem like a side-show the the grim situation in the Southeast, but we can’t dismiss it outright. These two cases are contradictory by design. An anti-abortion group specifically incorporated and filed its suit in Amarillo in an effort to make sure its lawsuit was heard by Kacsmaryk, an extreme anti-abortion judge. The Washington lawsuit, by contrast, was filed by state attorneys generals and similar state offices to keep mifepristone on the market.
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