Three liberal supreme court justices dissent in case that imperils Planned Parenthood funding – live | US supreme court

Per my last post, the supreme court has ruled 6-3 in a decision could embolden red states across the country to effectively “defund” Planned Parenthood.

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The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the decision, which overturned a lower court’s ruling barring Republican-governed South Carolina from terminating regional affiliate Planned Parenthood South Atlantic’s participation in the state’s Medicaid program because the organization provides abortions.

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The US supreme court has paved the way for South Carolina to kick Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program over its status as an abortion provider, in a decision that could embolden red states across the country to effectively “defund” the reproductive healthcare organization.

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The case, Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, centers around a 2018 executive order from South Carolina’s governor, Henry McMaster, that blocked clinics that provide abortions from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. “Payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life,” McMaster said at the time, even though the reimbursements could not be used for abortions. Abortions are also now banned in South Carolina after six weeks of pregnancy.

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Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a Planned Parenthood affiliate that operates two clinics in South Carolina, and Julie Edwards, a patient who sought birth control, sued over McMaster’s order, arguing that it flew in the face of a federal provision known as the “free choice of provider” clause. That provision guarantees that people insured by Medicaid, the government health insurance program for people with low income or other eligibilities, can freely choose their own providers as long as they accept the program and are qualified to provide care. Lower courts have repeatedly sided with Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and Edwards, keeping McMaster’s order from taking effect.

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The case in front of the supreme court did not directly deal with the question of whether South Carolina could legally remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid. Instead, the justices were asked to weigh in on a highly technical question: Do Medicaid beneficiaries have the right to sue if they believe their right to a free choice of provider has been violated?

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South Carolina, which was represented in the case by the powerful rightwing organization Alliance Defending Freedom, argued that beneficiaries could not sue and that the free choice of provider clause lacked “clear rights-creating language”, as ADF senior counsel John Bursch put it in oral arguments.

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These technicalities cloaked the potentially sweeping consequences of the case. If people can’t sue when they believe a state is violating Medicaid, it is far harder to stop states from discriminating against controversial care, such as abortion, Nicole Huberfeld, a health law professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, told the Guardian ahead of oral arguments.

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The South Carolina case was also part of a longstanding effort by anti-abortion activists, including ADF, to “defund” Planned Parenthood by cutting it out of Medicaid. Of the 2.4 million people treated at Planned Parenthood each year, almost half use Medicaid.

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Contrary to that, the Financial Times is reporting that European capitals believe Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile remains largely intact following US strikes on its main nuclear sites.

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The newspaper, citing two people briefed on preliminary intelligence assessments, said European capitals believe Iran’s stockpile of 408 kilogram of uranium enriched close to weapons-grade levels was not concentrated in Fordow, one of its two main enrichment sites, at the time of last weekend’s attack.

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Trump has claimed that nothing was taken out of the facility at the Iranian nuclear site struck by the US last weekend, as his administration continues its campaign to insist that the strikes were more effective than early intelligence has found.

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The president wrote on Truth Social minutes ago, without providing evidence:

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The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the shafts. Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!

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We just heard similar from defense secretary Pete Hegseth who said he was unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from US strikes on its nuclear program.

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Asked if he’s been pressured to change his assessment of US strikes on Iran, General Dan Caine says:

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I’ve never been pressured by the president of the secretary to do anything other than tell them exactly what I’m thinking and that’s exactly what I’ve done.

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Pete Hegseth says he is unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from US strikes on Iran’s nuclear program over the weekend.

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I’m not aware of any intelligence that I’ve reviewed that says things were not where they were supposed to be, moved or otherwise.

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Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff air force general Dan Caine says that on Monday morning they began to receive “indications and warnings that Iran intended to attack US bases in the region” and moved most personnel out of the area.

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Hegseth is very aggressively and bizarrely attacking the press corps, claiming:

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Because you cheer against Trump so hard – it’s in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump, because you want him not to be successful so bad – you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope that maybe they weren’t effective.

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He then accuses the media of “spinning” leaked information “in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the public mind over whether or not our brave pilots were successful”.

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Hegseth has some suggestions for stories the media could write – including “how hard it is to fly a plane for 36 hours”, and blames “the hatred of this press corp” on stories like that not happening, adding: “It’s irresponsible.”

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Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff air force general Dan Caine are holding a press briefing at the Pentagon. I’ll bring you any news lines here.

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed victory over Israel and said his country had “delivered a hand slap to America’s face” on Thursday, in his first public comments since a ceasefire was declared in the war between the two countries.

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Khamenei spoke in a video broadcast on Iranian state television, his first appearance since June 19, looking and sounding more tired than he did only a week ago.

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He told viewers that the US had only intervened in the war because “it felt that if it did not intervene, the Zionist regime would be utterly destroyed”.

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But he said, however, that the US “achieved no gains from this war”.

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“The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America’s face,” he said, in apparent reference to an Iranian missile attack on an American base in Qatar on Monday, which caused no casualties.

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Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said his US counterpart Donald Trump told him he would attend potential peace talks between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia in Turkey, if Russian president Vladimir Putin also agreed to take part.

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On his return flight from the Nato summit, where he met Trump for the first time since he returned to office, Erdogan said he told the US president Ankara aims to bring the Russian and Ukrainian leaders together in Turkey for peace talks.

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“He (Trump) said, ‘if Russian president Vladimir Putin comes to Istanbul or Ankara for a solution, then I will also come,” Erdogan’s office on Thursday quoted him as telling reporters.

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“We will hold the necessary contacts and God willing realise this meeting as soon as possible.”

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines.

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Senators are set to meet with top national security officials Thursday as many question president Donald Trump’s decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites — and whether those strikes were ultimately successful.

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The classified briefing, which was originally scheduled for Tuesday and was delayed, also comes as the Senate is expected to vote this week on a resolution that would require congressional approval if Trump decides to strike Iran again, AP reported.

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Democrats, and some Republicans, have said that the White House overstepped its authority when it failed to seek the advice of Congress and they want to know more about the intelligence that Trump relied on when he authorized the attacks.

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“Senators deserve full transparency, and the administration has a legal obligation to inform Congress precisely about what is happening,” said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who said Tuesday that it was “outrageous” that the Senate and House briefings were postponed. A similar briefing for House members was pushed to Friday.

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CIA director John Ratcliffe, secretary of state Marco Rubio and defense secretary Pete Hegseth are expected to brief the senators on Thursday. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was scheduled to be at the Tuesday briefing, but will not be attending, according to a person familiar with the schedule.

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In other news:

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  Trump weighed in on Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York, saying Mamdani was a “100% Communist Lunatic” and saying he and other progressive politicians were signs that “our Country is really SCREWED”.

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  Trump has lit into journalists who are reporting on the doubts in the intelligence community that the US bombs actually decimated the Iranian nuclear sites. He has called for a CNN journalist to be fired over her reporting. CNN defended its journalist, Natasha Bertrand, and its stories on the matter.

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  Emil Bove, a judicial nominee and justice department official, was grilled by a Senate committee and denied allegations in a whistleblower report about ignoring judicial orders and said claims of a quid pro quo for New York City mayor Eric Adams were false.

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  Speaking of Eric Adams, he is expected to formally announce his mayoral run tomorrow. He is running as an independent. And he went on Fox and called Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, a “snake oil salesman”.

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  Mamdani, meanwhile, gathered congratulations (sometimes muted) from prominent Democrats after his upset win in the mayoral primary. On the right, Stephen Miller has cast Mamdani’s win as a symptom of “unchecked migration”.

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  The Working Families Party called Mamdani’s win a “seismic shift” and shows that “voters are thoroughly fed up with the status quo”.

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  Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s new vaccine advisory panel is meeting today for the first time.

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