In an opinion issued Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should “reexamine” a 154-year-old section of federal law that is widely used in civil rights litigation.
The high court’s conservative majority cleared the way on Thursday for states to block Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, in a 6-3 ruling that overturned a lower court’s decision barring South Carolina from terminating Planned Parenthood South Atlantic’s participation in the state’s Medicaid program.
The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood and Medicaid patient Julie Edwards in 2018 after Republican Gov. Henry McMaster directed South Carolina officials to declare the organization ineligible to participate in the state’s Medicaid program because it provides abortions.
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