"At the end of August, Texas and Florida's attorneys general asked to join GOP attorneys general from Missouri, Idaho, and Kansas in a yearslong lawsuit targeting mifepristone - breathing new life into the litigation attacking the most widely used method of abortion in the United States."
"Earlier this year, Donald Trump's Department of Justice asked the courts to dismiss the suit - not based on the meritless and absurd myths about the medication (including the false claim that the drug "starves the baby to death in the womb"), but due to a lack of standing."
"In addition, while Leo may be on the outs with Trump at the moment, it is proving seemingly inconsequential as Leo's anti-abortion agenda is being propelled forward by anti-abortion attorneys general and groups with ties to the anti-abortion powerbroker, as well as lower court judges he helped get installed on the bench."
Texas and Florida attorneys general moved to join a yearslong GOP lawsuit seeking to restrict access to mifepristone, the most widely used abortion medication. Earlier, the Department of Justice under Trump asked courts to dismiss the case for lack of standing rather than on medical merits, a move interpreted as politically tactical ahead of upcoming elections. Leonard Leo helped shape the Supreme Court majority that ended federal abortion protections in Dobbs and continues to exert influence through aligned attorneys general, advocacy groups, and lower-court judges he supported. That network is driving renewed legal and policy attacks on medication abortion access.
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