The in-person dispensing requirement will almost certainly be put back into force, as the anti-abortion movement is incensed by the success with which patients even in red states are getting mifepristone prescribed by doctors in blue ones and sent through the mail

Per a filing for Louisiana's attempt to restrict mifepristone, FDA gives us an idea of when the (deliberately post-midterms) crackdown will begin. Agency estimates that its "safety review" of mifepristone will be done by March 2027, and that its likely adding back of restrictions will follow

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If 8th Circuit rules as anticipated, People Not Politicians will file emergency appeal to SCOTUS to maintain block on 7-1 gerrymander. The map seemed off the table after SCOTUS' last intervention, but a hostile 8th circuit panel (2 Trump judges, 1 H W Bush) seems likely to rule for MO Republicans

shot at kavanaugh here

In his concurrence, Kavanaugh wrote that he would have supported the executive order’s legality but for the compressed timeline, which violated the APA “because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.”

Chief Justice Powell says that Hoskins ~was~ in contempt of court, but has "since corrected his contemptuous conduct" by telling election officials to use the '22 maps

Getting ahead of his 2 pm (local) return to Missouri Supreme Court, Secretary of State Hoskins says he's directing local election authorities to use the '22 map (6R-2D, though keep half an eye on MO-02, an R+8 district, which could get swept up if a big enough blue wave manifests)

Chief to Missouri/Hoskins lawyer as he gavels hearing out: I would tell your client "not to venture far from Jefferson City until this contempt motion is resolved"

Hatfield is mad now, given Missouri officials' squishiness - recommends Court to tell local election officials today that they are to follow Court's order and implement '22 map

Judges working in tandem to pin AG's office down on next steps — Gooch asks if SOS now intends to implement '22 map (lawyer says yes absent further federal court action), Fischer asks if Hoskins intends to email election admins w the new guidance after this hearing (lawyer wriggles out of second q)

Multiple Supreme Court judges pissed that Hoskins went with the federal court order rather than just doing nothing until SCOTUS weighed in

Judge Wilson says he's dissatisfied with Missouri's reply that they're considering next steps. "I don't want to wake up tomorrow and read that the secretary says he can do nothing because the 9/8 deadline has passed" (9/8 was deadline to finalize ballots in the state)

Chief: "We’re in a precarious situation." Urges them all to "get on the same page" and "find a way to save some of these elections so they are valid and we can sit the congressional delegation that our state is entitled to"

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice W. Brent Powell getting stern with AG's office — makes him repeat back that HB1 (the new 7-1 gerrymander) never legally went into effect

Missouri's lawyer: Secretary of State Hoskins "acknowledges that this court's injunction back in full force and effect" and is "evaluating next steps"

Chuck Hatfield, counsel for People Not Politicians, tells Missouri Supreme Court that SOS Hoskins told him he understands that he's under an injunction from the state Supreme Court, and that he currently intends to proceed to the general election under the 2022 map (a 6R-2D gerrymander)