What the Supreme Court Decides to Hear

By Greg Camp

Fayetteville, AR –-(Ammoland.com)- The Supreme Court’s decision recently to refuse to hear a challenge to a law restricting abortion access in Arkansas raises the question of the implications of the cases that the highest court chooses to consider.

The Arkansas case deals with a law regulating the use of medications that induce an abortion. The Supreme Court did not offer any ruling, but instead simply declined to take up the appeal against the law.

Those of us who are not lawyers can be confused by the implications of denials like this. Does this mean that the court approves of all laws restricting access to abortion? Does it mean that Roe v. Wade is soon to be overturned?

No. It simply means that the court didn’t want to hear this particular case. According to FindLaw.com, the possible reasons for that are several: there is no conflict in law, the case isn’t sufficiently important, no justice has an interest in the subject, or the lower courts haven’t disregarded prior rulings. I find it hard to believe that any of those reasons apply to this case, but this is what at least some legal scholarship offers for …Read the Rest

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