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Abortion case shows Roberts at court’s center
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
Chief Justice John Rob-
erts broke with the Supreme
Court’s other conservative
justices and his own voting
record on abortion to block a
Louisiana law requiring abor-
tion providers to have admit-
ting privileges at a nearby
hospital.
Roberts didn’t explain his
decision late Thursday to join
the court’s four liberal jus-
tices. But it was the clearest
sign yet of the role Roberts
intends to play as he guides a
more conservative court with
two new members appointed
by President Donald Trump.
Since the retirement of
Justice Anthony Kennedy last
summer, Roberts has become
the court’s new swing vote.
He is, by most measures, a
very conservative justice, but
he seems determined to keep
the court from moving too
far right too fast and being
perceived as just another
forum for partisan politics in
Washington.
“People need to know
that we’re not doing politics.
They need to know that we’re
doing something differ-
ent, that we’re applying the
law,” Roberts said during an
appearance this week at Ten-
nessee’s Belmont University.
Roberts’ vote in the Loui-
siana case was the fourth time
in recent weeks that he has
held the decisive vote on 5-4
outcomes that otherwise split
the court’s conservative and
liberal justices.
In late December, Rob-
erts joined the liberals to keep
Trump’s new asylum policy
from taking effect. It would
have prevented immigrants
from making asylum claims
if they didn’t enter the United
States at a border crossing.
Then, in January, Roberts
voted with the conservatives
to allow restrictions on mil-
itary service by transgender
individuals to be put in place.
On Thursday, a half hour
before the court acted on
the Louisiana law, Roberts
voted with the conservatives
to deny a Muslim death row
AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts answers questions
during an appearance at Belmont University.
inmate’s plea to have his
imam with him for his execu-
tion in Alabama. The federal
appeals court in Atlanta had
ordered the execution halted,
but the Supreme Court lifted
the hold and allowed it to
proceed.
The fi nal vote was the
order to keep Louisiana’s
admitting privileges law on
hold while the court decides
whether to add the case to
its calendar for the term that
begins in October. Louisi-
ana’s law is strikingly similar
to a Texas measure the jus-
tices struck down in 2016.
A district court judge
had struck down the Louisi-
ana law because he found it
would have resulted in the
closure of at least one, and
perhaps two, of the state’s
three abortion clinics, and left
the state with no more than
two doctors who could meet
the law’s requirements. But
the federal appeals court in
New Orleans upheld the law,
concluding it was not certain
that any clinic would have to
close.
So much of what the court
has done in recent weeks
has been through emergency
appeals, cases that call for
temporary, yet often reveal-
ing, votes. Unlike in cases
that are argued and decided,
the votes come with little
explanation. When there is an
opinion, it usually is a dissent.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
wrote the only dissent in the
Louisiana case, arguing that
the court should have allowed
the law to take effect because
it is not clear that doctors
would have been unable to
obtain hospital privileges
during a 45-day transition
period.
After the ruling, some
Democrats seized on Kava-
naugh’s vote as proof that he
was not following through
on his assurances at his con-
fi rmation hearing to respect
past Supreme Court decisions
on abortion. But in his dissent
he said otherwise. Kavana-
ugh acknowledged that the
court’s decision in the Texas
case is the guiding precedent
and seemed to suggest he
might be willing to vote the
other way if it turned out that
hospitals were unwilling to
afford the doctors admitting
privileges.
The Louisiana clinics had
argued that they would have
been forced to stop perform-
ing abortions immediately
and that clinics, once closed,
are diffi cult to reopen.
Kavanaugh and Justice
Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s two
high-court appointees, are
among six Trump-nominated
judges who voted to let the
law take effect, a sign that the
president is carrying through
on a campaign pledge to put
abortion-rights
opponents
on the bench. The other four
judges are members of the
New Orleans-based 5th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals,
which had refused to put the
law on hold.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Warren makes presidential bid
offi cial with call for change
LAWRENCE, Mass. — Democratic Sen. Elizabeth War-
ren made her bid for the presidency offi cial on Saturday in
this working-class city, grounding her 2020 campaign in
a populist call to fi ght economic inequality and build “an
America that works for everyone.”
Warren delivered a sharp call for change at her presiden-
tial kickoff, decrying a “middle-class squeeze” that has left
Americans crunched with “too little accountability for the
rich, too little opportunity for everyone else.” She and her
backers hope that message can distinguish her in a crowded
Democratic fi eld and help her move past the controversy
surrounding her past claims to Native American heritage.
Weaving specifi c policy prescriptions into her remarks,
from Medicare for All to the elimination of Washington
“lobbying as we know it,” Warren avoided taking direct jabs
at President Donald Trump. She aimed for a broader institu-
tional shift instead, urging supporters to choose “a govern-
ment that makes different choices, choices that refl ect our
values.”
Warren announced her campaign in her home state of
Massachusetts at a mill site where factory workers went on
strike in the early 20th century, a fi tting forum for the long-
time consumer advocate to advance her platform.
Dems’ 2020 fi eld now includes
Minnesota Sen. Klobuchar
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on
Sunday joined the growing group of Democrats jostling to
be president and positioned herself as the most prominent
Midwestern candidate in the fi eld, as her party tries to win
back voters in a region that helped put Donald Trump in the
White House.
“For every American, I’m running for you,” she told an
exuberant crowd gathered on a freezing, snowy afternoon at
a park along the Mississippi River with the Minneapolis sky-
line in the background.
Klobuchar easily won a third term last year. She is known
as a straight-shooting, pragmatist willing to work with
Republicans, making her one of the Senate’s most produc-
tive members at passing legislation.
She has pointed to her broad appeal across Minnesota as
she has discussed a 2020 run. She has drawn support from
voters in urban, suburban and rural areas, including in doz-
ens of counties Trump won in 2016.
California governor to
draw down guard troops at border
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to
withdraw several hundred National Guard troops from the
state’s southern border with Mexico in defi ance of the Trump
administration’s request for support from border states.
About 100 of the 360 troops will remain deployed under
California’s agreement with the federal government to focus
specifi cally on combating transnational crime such as drug
and gun smuggling, Newsom spokesman Nathan Click said.
Specifi cally, they will be tasked with providing intelligence
on transnational crime and assist with cargo dock operations
and searches of commercial trucks for contraband.
Newsom’s move comes on the heels of New Mexico Gov.
Michelle Lujan Grisham, also a Democrat, pulling back her
state’s troops from the U.S.-Mexico border. The two states’
former governors agreed to send troops to the border last
April at the Trump administration’s request, along with
Texas and Arizona.
Newsom’s and Grisham’s actions are a fresh, if symbolic,
affront to President Donald Trump’s description of an immi-
gration crisis on the nation’s southern border.
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and the
United States struck a new deal Sunday that increases
Seoul’s contribution for the cost of the American
military presence on its soil, overcoming previous failed
negotiations that caused worries about their decades-long
alliance.
The development comes as President Donald Trump is
set to hold his second summit with North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un in Vietnam in late February.
South Korea last year provided about $830 million, cov-
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28,500 U.S. soldiers whose presence is meant to deter
aggression from North Korea. Trump has pushed for South
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