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Garnet Henderson
@garnethenderson.com

BREAKING: It’s now past 5pm ET and no word from the Supreme Court. This means the 5th Circuit’s ruling restricting telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone is now in effect. However the Supreme Court could act and change this at any time.

Garnet Henderson
@garnethenderson.com

Not only is letting the stay expire a bad look, it will cause chaos, confusion and fear for abortion providers and abortion seekers. Abortion providers and funds are responding to questions from confused and scared people NOW

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

5 p.m. came and went without anything from #SCOTUS on mifepristone. That means that Justice Alito’s administrative stay has technically expired, and that the Fifth Circuit’s ruling is back in effect. I still think we’ll hear something from the Court soon, but letting the stay expire is a bad look.

Garnet Henderson
@garnethenderson.com
Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com

BREAKING (again, sorry) the order is in: The Fifth Circuit's ruling is again blocked. Mifepristone remains available via telehealth. Alito and Thomas dissent. Thomas' dissent mentions the Comstock Act, the 1873 anti vice law conservatives want to use to ban mailing abortion pills.

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