The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the abortion pill can remain on the market. 

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill in a setback for the pro-life movement. In a unanimous 9-0 ruling, the justices rejected a lawsuit from a group of doctors opposed to abortion who were pushing for more restrictions on mifepristone, one of two drugs frequently taken together to cause an abortion. The ruling means mifepristone pills can continue to be mailed to patients without seeing a doctor in person. In the opinion of the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the doctors who brought the case lacked standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) previous approval of the abortion pill. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Those standing allegations suffer from the same problem—a lack of causation. The causal link between FDA’s regulatory actions and those alleged injuries is too speculative or otherwise too attenuated to establish standing,” Kavanaugh wrote. The case, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, was the first major abortion case to come before the Supreme Court since 2022 when it overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide. “We recognize that many citizens, including the plaintiff doctors here, have sincere concerns about and objections to others using mifepristone and obtaining abortions,” Kavanaugh wrote. “But citizens and doctors do not have standing to sue simply because others are allowed to engage in certain activities – at least without the plaintiffs demonstrating how they would be injured by the government’s alleged under-regulation of others.”

A group of Senate Republicans have signed onto a new pledge to place a hold on a growing number of President Joe Biden‘s nominees in protest of the criminal prosecutions against former President Donald Trump. Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Mike Lee (R-UT), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) signed onto a letter dated June 13 with details of their crack-down. Fast-tracking of Biden’s Article III court judicial nominees, U.S. attorney nominees, and nominees who backed the Trump cases or “supported law fare or censorship in other ways” will be stopped under this plan. “This compliment to the pledge of May 31 will last until Election Day, when the American people will have the opportunity to decisively reject attempts to settle political disputes through the legal system,” they said. Vance, a VP contender, and the others signed an earlier letter that said they would try to stop funding for “partisan lawfare,” confirmation of political and judicial nominees, and quick consideration of Democrat bills. “We need to fight back against the weaponization of government against political opposition. I’m proud to stand with a number of my Republican senate colleagues and do just that,” Vance said in a post to X on Thursday. Here’s our letter. Huge thanks to my colleagues for leading this charge. pic.twitter.com/ipMKVYaLk7 — J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) June 13, 2024 A press release listed dozens of Biden’s nominees to whom the Senate GOP hold applies, including the selection of Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) to become representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations. Former Florida Democratic Governor Charlie Crist, who is nominated to be the United States’ Representative to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, is another one of Biden’s picks on the list. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The letters follow Trump’s guilty verdict on felony counts of falsifying business records to allegedly cover up a tryst with adult film star Stormy Daniel as part of a “catch-and-kill” scheme to influence the 2016 election. Trump, who denied the affair and pleaded not guilty, said he would be “appealing this scam.” Sentencing is scheduled for July 11, which is days before Trump is expected to receive the GOP presidential nomination. Three other criminal matters hang over Trump as he runs for a second term, including two cases led by special counsel Jack Smith. It is not clear whether any of those will reach the trial stage before the 2024 election.