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(Life Site News<\/a>)\u00a0Judge Amul Thapar of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals forcefully rebuked his colleagues for ruling that Tennessee must exempt the abortion industry from orders to conserve medical supplies during the COVID-19 crisis, offering insight into how he might rule if President Donald Trump selects him to fill a future Supreme Court vacancy.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, U.S. district judge Bernard Friedman blocked<\/a> Republican Gov. Bill Lee\u2019s executive order temporarily suspending \u201cnon-urgent\u201d medical procedures from being applied to elective abortions. Such emergency orders are based on medical authorities\u2019 guidance<\/a> to delay procedures both to limit the spread of the coronavirus and to free up time and resources to focus on infected patients.<\/p>\n

The Sixth Circuit sided with Friedman, Fox News reports<\/a>, but Thapar penned a stinging dissent, all but accusing his colleagues\u2019 \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d decision of putting ideology ahead of the law.<\/p>\n

He said the majority \u201ccommitted numerous legal errors, made hardly any factual findings, issued an overly broad injunction, and brazenly substituted its own policy views for those of the elected officials who are actually fighting the pandemic. All because the district court thought that a three-week delay for certain abortions might prevent some unidentified person from having an abortion. Most cases of judicial aggrandizement have costs. But in few are the potential costs so great.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOf course, a state always suffers irreparable injury when it\u2019s wrongfully enjoined from enforcing one of its laws. But that\u2019s far from the only harm here,\u201d Thapar continued. \u201cThe Governor issued the executive order to preserve critical medical equipment. Every piece of equipment used for something besides the pandemic response could cost a life \u2014 the life of someone who acts selflessly to help others in a time of crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo sum up: the district court granted an injunction without much effort to apply the relevant law, without specific factual findings, and without any attempt to tailor the remedy to the purported constitutional violation,\u201d the judge concluded. \u201cIf that doesn\u2019t count as an abuse of discretion, I don\u2019t know what would.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thapar is on Trump\u2019s short list to fill vacancies to the nation\u2019s highest court. While his words do not specify whether he thinks Roe v. Wade<\/em> was rightly decided or shed light on his approach to judicial precedent, they do display a willingness to push back against pro-abortion judicial activism.<\/p>\n

While similar challenges are ongoing in several states, it remains to be seen whether the current dispute will reach the Supreme Court following Texas officials\u2019 decision<\/a> to relax their state\u2019s suspension of elective procedures, including abortions.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Life Site News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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(Life Site News)\u00a0Judge Amul Thapar of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals forcefully rebuked his colleagues for ruling that Tennessee must exempt the abortion industry from orders to conserve medical supplies during the COVID-19 crisis, offering insight into how he might rule if President Donald Trump selects him to fill a future Supreme Court vacancy. 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