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Additional Key SCOTUS Rulings [1]

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Date: 2025-06-26

More 2025 Supreme Court Summaries–June 26, 2025

The end-of-year SCOTUS cases “just keep on coming!” We should not at all be surprised that the Roberts Court continues its anti-choice hostility. Remember, it was only three years ago that this very Court overturned the right to abortion in the 1973 “Roe v. Wade” opinion. On June 26, 2025, SCOTUS (the Supreme Court of the United States) in the 6-3 conservative/liberal lineup blocked Planned Parenthood from suing South Carolina over that state’s decision to pull the organization’s Medicaid funding because that organization provides abortions. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/politics/planned-parenthood-south-carolina-supreme-court

Trump appointee conservative Neil Gorsuch wrote this opinion. He argued, along with conservative backers, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, that represented S. Carolina, that the Medicaid law does not specifically include language giving people a right to sue and the Supreme Court has been reluctant in other cases to find that right absent an explicit buy-in-from Congress. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/politics/planned-parenthood-south-carolina-supreme-court

This case started in 2018 when Palmetto State GOP Gov. Henry McMaster signed an executive order that yanked Medicaid funding from that state’s two Planned Parenthood clinics. McMaster argued that those payments amounted to a taxpayer subsidy for abortion and SC bans abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy, according to CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/politics/planned-parenthood-south-carolina-supreme-court

About one-fifth or 20% of SC residents are insured by Medicaid. As CNN noted, Planned Parenthood operates two facilities in the state, one in Charleston and another in Columbia. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/politics/planned-parenthood-south-carolina-supreme-court

CNN also correctly stated that Gov. McMaster’s order, while aimed at restricting abortion access, would have the effect of additionally blocking patients from receiving other Planned Parenthood services, including contraceptives, breast cancer exams, and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/politics/planned-parenthood-south-carolina-supreme-court

This decision, according to the Huffington Post, will help push Trump and his GOP’s long held priority to defund Planned Parenthood. It paves the path for many other “Red” states to take the same action, as the Huffington Post noted. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-rules-that-states-can-block-medicaid-patients-from-accessing-planned-parenthood_n_6841a12ae4b00…

Bet on it.

However, in another case, SCOTUS, in a 6-3 decision, ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution. In this opinion, backing anti-death penalty advocates, SCOTUS ruled in favor of Ruben Guiterrez. It gives him a potential path that his attorneys say would, according to the Huffington Post, help prove that he was not responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-gutierrez_n_685d5861e4b073fdbf81fbe7

Again, with the Roberts SCOTUS, one never knows how they will come out on particular cases, although most of the time they tend to follow conservative ideology.

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