JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In an extraordinary Supreme Court filing on Friday, the Justice Department accused the American Civil Liberties Union of misconduct in the case of an undocumented teenager known as Jane Doe. The teenager obtained an abortion last month over the government’s objection after an appeals court allowed it…
David Cole, the A.C.L.U.’s legal director, said the accusations were baseless…
The appeals court, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ruled in favor of the teenager on Oct. 24. According to the Justice Department’s brief, lawyers for the A.C.L.U. initially indicated that the abortion would take place on Oct. 26. On that understanding, the department’s brief said it had planned to file an emergency application for a stay in the Supreme Court on Oct. 25…
In its brief, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to vacate the appeals court’s ruling, wiping it out as a precedent. It also asked the justices to consider punishing the A.C.L.U.’s lawyers.”
-Adam Liptak, “Justice Department Accuses A.C.L.U. of Misconduct in Abortion Case,” The New York Times online, Nov. 3, 2017