The Trump administration is defending federal regulations allowing abortion pills to be available online and by mail, the Justice Department revealed on Monday.
But rather than defending the Food and Drug Administration’s rules for the pills on the merits, the DOJ argued in a filing with a Texas federal court that the three GOP-controlled states suing the agency lack standing and the case should be thrown out.
“Their claims have no connection to the Northern District of Texas,” the DOJ’s brief said of Idaho’s, Kansas’s and Missouri’s challenge, adding that the states are trying to rely on “an incorrect legal argument in unrelated briefing” to argue for new restrictions on the drugs and accusing them of “gamesmanship.”
