Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm
Speaker 1: Nathan Hager. It is the first day of a new
Speaker 1: term for the Supreme Court, and already the justices have
Speaker 1: made some major moves on abortion rights and electoral law. First,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court has rebuffed the Biden administration in a
Speaker 1: case out of Texas, favoring the lone Star state in
Speaker 1: a fight over the availability of abortion in hospital emergency rooms.
Speaker 1: The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeal said Texas's broad
Speaker 1: abortion ban was not bound by a Health and Human
Speaker 1: Services memo that requires hospitals to offer abortions on an
Speaker 1: emergency basis to protect a mother's health. The Biden administration
Speaker 1: had asked the High Court to reconsider that ruling. The
Speaker 1: Justices have also turned away a challenge to President Biden's
Speaker 1: three year old voter registration initiative without comment. They left
Speaker 1: in place a federal trial court order that twenty seven
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers lacked the legal standing to sue over
Speaker 1: President Biden's twenty twenty one executive order. And the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court has turned away an appeal from x formerly known
Speaker 1: as Twitter, which argued unsuccessfully that the company should not
Speaker 1: have been required to turnover records about former President Trump's
Speaker 1: social media account to special counsel Jack Smith. One other note,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court is also leaving in place a sixty
Speaker 1: five million dollar antitrust judgment against Martin Screlley, the so
Speaker 1: called farmer bro had tried to overturn his punishment over
Speaker 1: a scheme to control the market for the drug dereprim
Speaker 1: The Justices turned away that bid without comment. That's news
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