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One of my lawyer friends has been predicting for months we would see Amy Coney Barrett gradually moving toward a partial alliance with the liberal justices on the court, and yesterday, we saw her back up Justice Sotomayor's argument in the Iowa abortion case before the court.
"The U.S. Supreme Court sounded divided yesterday during oral arguments in a case concerning access to emergency abortions. The justices were hearing arguments in two consolidated cases about whether a near total abortion ban in the state of Idaho conflicts with a federal law," Mika Brzezinski said.
"That federal law passed in 1986 requires emergency rooms to provide care to any patients with urgent medical issues, but Idaho's new abortion law only permits hospitals to perform abortions when a mother's life is in danger. For the most part, the Supreme Court justices seem to fall along ideological lines yesterday, but at one point, even conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett discussed shock with what she was hearing from a lawyer representing the state of idaho."
SOTOMAYOR: When Idaho law changed to make the issue whether she's going to die or not or whether she's going to have a serious medical condition -- there's a big daylight by your standards, correct?
ATTORNEY: It is very case by case.
SOTOMAYOR: That's the problem.
BARRETT: I'm kind of shocked actually because I thought your own expert had said below that these kinds of cases were covered and you're now saying they're not?
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