Holy sh*t, the 5th Circuit is out of control.
From Chris Hayes: "One of the holdings is that the anti-abortion ob-gyns who brought the suit have standing because their patients use of the drug causes 'aesthetic injury' to them by robbing of them of the joy of looking at images of their patient's fetuses."
From Steve Vladeck: "Trying to teach the Fifth Circuit’s Article III standing doctrine as if it reflects consistent application of neutral doctrinal principles is … increasingly impossible."
@RationalLeft how about every single person who has been robbed of the joy of ever again seeing the faces of their loved ones who have been gunned down in cold blood? I think they should have standing to sue the gun seller, the gun manufacturer, the state, and the feds for failing to keep their loved ones safe from a proliferation of weapons.
@RationalLeft I say good luck to states trying to prevent the mailing and receipt of mifepristone. Unless they somehow go after the two manufacturers. Even then it might be years before they can get it modified or removed from the market and then it will just get manufactured elsewhere now that it's generic. We are not going back to back alley abortions.
@hallmarc No, that's not going to happen.
But plenty on the right want it to, and think it can.
After Dobbs, a prominent wingnut (I don't remember who) triumphantly jeered online that liberal women had better get their coat hangers ready.
@hallmarc The 5th Circuit's concept of law is "what gets us to what we want?" and that's it.