The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed for a Republican attorney general in Kentucky to defend a law banning abortion after 15 weeks of gestation after the state’s Democratic governor dropped the matter.
Justices voted 8-1 to reject a federal appeals court’s decision that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron waited too long to get involved after other state officials said they would not pursue an appeal, according to court records.
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