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| Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron |
After the Sixth Circuit made its decision, pro-abortion Kentucky Gov. Andrew Beshear refused to defend HB 454, which was passed under the previous administration. Cameron attempted to intervene and defend the law, but the Sixth Circuit denied him the ability to do so.
A coalition of 20 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in December, defending Cameron's right to defend his state's law. Part of that brief reads,
"The Sixth Circuit panel majority deprived the Commonwealth of Kentucky from seeking complete appellate review of the District Court’s injunction invalidating one of its duly enacted laws. And it did so on purely procedural grounds, holding that the Kentucky Attorney General could not intervene to vindicate state law on appeal because a single state officer had decided to abandon defense of a law passed by both houses of its Legislature and signed into law by its [previous] Governor."
