June 26, 2025

"Supreme Court allows states to cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood."

WaPo reports.  Free-access link.

At issue for the justices was whether a provision of the federal Medicaid Act allows individual Medicaid patients to sue to obtain care from their provider of choice.... Several justices during oral argument seemed eager to provide clarity to help lower courts determine when a statute simply confers a benefit to an individual and when it goes further, empowering those individuals to sue to enforce that benefit or right. The Supreme Court has typically set a high bar for allowing lawsuits against the government, seeking to shield public officials from liability....

17 comments:

n.n said...

Progress.

Peachy said...

Pay for your NPR and your abortions yourself people.

n.n said...

To relieve a "burden" is the handmade tale brayed in progressive sects.

narciso said...

the temples to Moloch are shuttered, how does Medicaid even enter into this,

wild chicken said...

Oh dear, there went our local Gender Affirming Care outlet.

gilbar said...

how long?
how long before a district judge issues a universal injunction,
staying the Supreme Court's decision?

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Why does it take SCOTUS intervention for Republicans to stop spending money on things the Democrats never asked our permission to spend tax dollars on in the first place?

Joe Bar said...

The comments there were surprising.....NOT!

Achilles said...

Planned Parenthood is a ghoul factory that makes money selling baby parts.

It is an explicit outgrowth of the eugenics movement.

Planned parenthood is one of the most reprehensible organizations on a fundamental human level ever

Enigma said...

@Achilles: Planned Parenthood is very explict eugenics -- and has been successful in suppressing the targeted (black) client population. Some on the nominal "left" are wealthy non-black eugenicists who very much want to use bread and circuses to buy and maintain control.

This pattern has been abundantly clear from FDR through 2020 presidential candidate Michael "throw 'em against a wall" Bloomberg. Flip-flopper Musk is a eugenicist too.

boatbuilder said...

"States Win Big As Supreme Court Upholds Their Authority To Deny Medicaid Funding For Abortion Advocacy Group."

As opposed to "Supreme Court Allows Bad People to Do Things We Don't Like."

RCOCEAN II said...

We need facts from the MSM. Not fake analysis in some mysterious "Top Secret" report done by some mysterious somebody. Assuming there even is a report. Which I doubt. GIven how often the MSM Lied about J6 and Russiagate - I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing is a life.

Remember how NYT's touted some anonymous "High level Trump appointee" who was "Leading the resistance". And then speculated how he was a cabinet member or a member of Trump's inner circle? And then it finally came out he was some obscure low level bureaucrat no one had heard of.

I could give you 100 instances where the MSM has lied about Trump. So no, I dont trust their reporting based on anonymous sources. Period.

rehajm said...

Supreme Court Allows Bad People to Do Things We Don't Like.

...gonna need that one tomorrow too, they are...

Deep State Reformer said...

My small "r" republican non-lawyer's ears perk up at the wording used here; "allowed". What should be the case is that the court has determined that the LAW allows or requires this outcome, bc if it's isn't then these rulings of their's are but decrees by a politicized kritarchy without moral standing but simply policy preferences imposed by force. (That is to paraphrase, "governance is not persuasion, it is force.) I wonder if they write this way deliberately?

n.n said...

That's one small step for the People, one giant leap for our Posterity-kind.

Greg The Class Traitor said...

Yes, DSR is correct. A true headline would be
"Supreme Court acknowledges that Congress did not create a right for people to sue if their State doesn't let ALL potential providers into Medicaid."

But telling the truth isn't a WaPo specialty.

Oh, well, better than ScotusBlog, where Amy Howe tried to claim that it was a "standing" issue.

mccullough said...

State officials are shielded from liability because they can’t be sued for money. PP just got an injunction. Now that injunction went poof.

The convolution of Ex Parte Young, 42 USC Sec 1983, and what “other laws” can be enforced through 1983 continues

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