I have little to add to what Dan McLaughlin already wrote tonight about the utterly lawless, mind-bogglingly outrageous ruling just now handed down by a federal judge in the District Court of Massachusetts in Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts v. Kennedy. The ruling purports to grant a nationwide temporary restraining order invalidating the provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill — just passed by Congress and signed into law — that cancels Planned Parenthood’s federal funding. The district court judge is thus commanding — purely on her own recognizance, with no legal theory to justify her ruling or explanation for Planned Parenthood’s likelihood of success on the merits — the United States to continue funding Planned Parenthood against its express legislative will.

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