Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is hopeful a judge will reject the Trump administration’s request to pause her lawsuit seeking to reinstate regulations of the abortion pill.

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice asked a federal court to pause Louisiana’s case against the Food and Drug Administration while the agency conducts a safety review into the abortion drug mifepristone.

“I am certainly hopeful that he will not accept the Department of Justice’s position, because they haven’t given any concrete reason to believe they are actually moving forward,” Murrill told The Daily Signal.

The state of Louisiana and resident Rosalie Markezich filed a lawsuit in 2025 challenging a Biden-era rule allowing abortion drugs to be dispensed to women through the mail without seeing a doctor first.

Markezich says her boyfriend coerced her into taking abortion pills, which he ordered from a doctor in California. While Louisiana law prohibits abortions in almost all cases, the lack of an in-person dispensing requirement on the drugs allowed him to obtain the drugs out of state through the mail.

The administration’s request for a pause says that studies like the abortion pill safety review “often take approximately a year or more to........

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