The Department of Justice on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving the 17-year-old undocumented immigrant detainee who received an abortion last month after a weeks-long legal battle with the Trump administration, and to discipline the attorneys who represented her.
The Justice Department filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court this week, saying “Jane Doe’s” American Civil Liberties Union attorneys “misled” on the timing of the abortion.
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