Report: Kavanaugh urged Supreme Court to leave path open for Louisiana abortion law lifesitenews.com

The Trump appointee wanted the justices to return the case to a lower court for more fact-finding, but they were set with their opinions.

When the U.S. Supreme Court voted to strike down a Louisiana abortion regulation last month, Justice Brett Kavanaugh urged his colleagues to write the opinion in such a way as to allow the law to be revived in a new trial, according to a new report on private memos among the nation’s most powerful judges.

Last month, the court voted 5-4 to strike down a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to make arrangements for admitting women to nearby hospitals in cases of emergencies. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal majority, reversing his own past decision to uphold a similar Texas law on the claim that the pro-abortion Texas ruling was now a binding precedent.

Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s second appointee to the Supreme Court, joined Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch in dissent, arguing for himself that “additional fact-finding” was needed to “properly evaluate” whether abortionists could have obtained admitting privileges under the law…