Melissa Murray

Thanks for having me.

Thank you.

It's going to be coming out on Cinco de Mayo.

I think the best thing to do to celebrate is to pour salt all over it, lick it, maybe do some body shots.

I don't know.

What do you think?

Taco Tuesday, Taco President, Cinco de Mayo.

This is perfect.

Sure.

So let me roll back a little bit.

Some of your listeners will remember, and if they're strict scrutiny listeners, they'll definitely remember that there was a case a few terms ago in the court called FDA versus the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine.

And I had such a hard time with the name of this case because I kept saying hypocritical medicine.

It's something of a Freudian slip for me.

Right.

So these are a group of pro-life doctors that were challenging the FDA's approval of Mifepristone.

And that case was argued before the Supreme Court.

The court, in an unexpected decision in advance of the 2024 election, said that there was no jurisdiction to hear the case because the doctors who were part of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine lack standing, which is to say that their professed injuries because of the FDA's approval of Mifepristone

were too attenuated to actually sustain federal court jurisdiction.

So the case was thrown out, although the court obviously didn't answer important questions regarding the FDA's approval of mifepristone, its authority to approve mifepristone, nor did it weigh in on

the absolute ridiculousness of some of the claims that the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine were making.