June 16, 2021

Kentucky AG Files Brief with Supreme Court to Defend Dismemberment Abortion Ban

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron
On Monday, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed a brief with the US Supreme Court arguing that he must be allowed to defend Kentucky's House Bill 454. This 2018 law bans dismemberment abortions, but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction blocking its enforcement.

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."

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