The Supreme Court on Mifepristone, Starbucks, and Bump Stocks

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Democrats strangely refuse to declare victory, after the Justices unanimously reject a challenge to the FDA's regulation of the abortion pill mifepristone. Plus, the High Court sides with Starbucks in a dispute over the legal standard for NLRB injunctions, and it rules that the ATF cannot ban rifle "bump stocks" by redefining the law so that they qualify as machine guns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	slash W.S.J. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:25.4	The Supreme Court ends the week with three big decisions on the abortion pill Miffapristone,
0:30.7	the legal standard for union seeking court victories, and the legality of rifle
0:35.6	accessories known as bump stocks.
0:38.4	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:42.0	We are joined today by my colleagues,
0:44.2	columnist Alicia Finley and Kim Strassal.
0:47.9	Supreme Court Watchers are playing the odds now
0:50.6	on opinion hand-down days as the justices wind down their yearly term and get ready for summer break.
0:56.5	Last week brought some opinions but only in naughty cases involving bankruptcy law and
1:02.0	the arcane details of the federal estate tax.
1:05.4	But this week, Alicia has not been a disappointment.
1:08.8	Let's start with one of the big opinions from Thursday, this is FDA versus Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine.
1:15.8	It's a challenge to the Food and Drug Administration's regulations on the abortion
1:20.8	pill Mythopristone, which the justices unanimously dismissed.
1:25.8	Alicia, can you give us a sense of what this controversy was, what the argument was over Mephistone,
1:31.2	and what the justices did here.
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