The American Prospect
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Residents in the Texas Panhandle city of Amarillo will vote on November 5 on a ballot measure to enact what abortion opponents call an “abortion trafficking ban.
The state of Texas currently has one of the most aggressive and sweeping anti-abortion laws that’s ever been passed on its books.
Yet abortion is still on the ballot in Texas this November .
City council member Tom Scherlen says he was aware of the request to work toward intervening in the Supreme Court case.
Council ultimately rejected the proposed ordinance after months of debate.
Mitchell offered to represent Amarillo for free in “any intervention proceedings that might arise” in the case.
Mitchell and his allies in the conservative Christian legal movement manufacture legal disputes.
Mitchell seemed to believe or understand that some judges would accept the AHM ’s lawsuit, or Amarillo ’s intervention, even though many legal experts concluded it had no leg to stand on.
“A local city doesn’t get to weigh in on what the FDA does nationally, and I just don't see how Amarillo has a specific, actual injury that is traceable to mifepristone,” expert says.
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