1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: Nathan Hager. It is the first day of a new 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 1: term for the Supreme Court, and already the justices have 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: made some major moves on abortion rights and electoral law. First, 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court has rebuffed the Biden administration in a 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: case out of Texas, favoring the lone Star state in 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: a fight over the availability of abortion in hospital emergency rooms. 8 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeal said Texas's broad 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: abortion ban was not bound by a Health and Human 10 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: Services memo that requires hospitals to offer abortions on an 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: emergency basis to protect a mother's health. The Biden administration 12 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: had asked the High Court to reconsider that ruling. The 13 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: Justices have also turned away a challenge to President Biden's 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: three year old voter registration initiative without comment. They left 15 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: in place a federal trial court order that twenty seven 16 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers lacked the legal standing to sue over 17 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: President Biden's twenty twenty one executive order. And the Supreme 18 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: Court has turned away an appeal from x formerly known 19 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: as Twitter, which argued unsuccessfully that the company should not 20 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: have been required to turnover records about former President Trump's 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: social media account to special counsel Jack Smith. One other note, 22 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is also leaving in place a sixty 23 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: five million dollar antitrust judgment against Martin Screlley, the so 24 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: called farmer bro had tried to overturn his punishment over 25 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: a scheme to control the market for the drug dereprim 26 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: The Justices turned away that bid without comment. That's news 27 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Nathan Hager, 28 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 1: and this is Bloomberg