Judge Talwani Blocks Law Congress Passed Defunding Planned Parenthood

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Yes, you read that correctly. Congress passed a law defunding Planned Parenthood, which was then signed INTO LAW by President Trump. Yesterday, Judge Talwani issued an injunction blocking the administration of that law.

Planned Parenthood won a temporary injunction on Monday that allows its clinics to continue to receive Medicaid funding for services that are unrelated to abortion.

The organization sued the Trump administration earlier on Monday over a new law that essentially bars Planned Parenthood clinics from receiving federal Medicaid payments, claiming that the legislation is an unconstitutional attack on Planned Parenthood’s national organization and its locally run health care clinics.

The lawsuit, which was filed in Federal District Court in Massachusetts, challenges part of the new domestic policy bill that President Trump signed on Friday. Judge Indira Talwani issued the temporary injunction, which expires in 14 days.

Read that again. A federal district judge just told Congress that they should fund Planned Parenthood in perpetuity with the injunction she imposed. 

Which is rich given that Planned Parenthood is NOT one of the named agencies in the Constitution that are to receive funds from Congress. Congress, by Constitutional law, has the power of the purse. They can giveth and they can taketh away. Well, Planned Parenthood didn’t like that one bit, hence their lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling marks the first known instance of a federal judge limiting enforcement of any part of the “big, beautiful” bill, which President Trump signed into law Friday.

It came just hours after Planned Parenthood sued over a provision that imposes a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments to health care nonprofits that also offer abortions and received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023. 

Talwani’s ruling still allows the administration to enforce the provision against other providers, but Planned Parenthood says it comprises almost the entirety of the impacted entities.

The judge issued the decision before the government responded, providing no explanation beyond a brief note that Planned Parenthood had shown “good cause” for her to immediately intervene.  

That’s just gobsmackingly arrogant of Judge Talwani. She issued the injunction while claiming that Planned Parenthood had “good cause” yet did not offer the government ANY opportunity to respond. Wow. Just. Wow. 

Democrats in Congress, who should know better, are beside themselves with glee. 

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Tammy, you are gross. Abortion should never EVER be considered life-saving when a life is ALWAYS taken as a result of the procedure. 

Furthermore, Judge Talwani stepped WAY out of her lane in issuing this injunction. And this ruling from June may have some serious play here. 

This is the rest of Roger’s comment:

Several states rightly excluded PP from Medicaid for not qualifying as a health care provider (two patients enter, only one leaves). PP and individuals sued saying PP is entitled to the money if a Medicaid patient wants to go there. The court answered, effectively, “that’s an interesting question but you don’t get to sue over it.” Liberals are apoplectic that there is anything they can’t sue over, but democracy depends on these limits, otherwise we would not have the rule of law, but the rule of judges.

That’s what we are seeing right now. Judges issuing rulings regardless of what the law and specifically what our Constitution says. Except that, as Roger references, the United States Supreme Court DID rule that states CAN block Planned Parenthood from receiving any Medicaid funding. 

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Yet here comes Judge Talwani (an Obama appointee) who is claiming that Congress cannot block funding from Planned Parenthood. Which, in my opinion, has her also thumbing her nose directly against the Supreme Court. 

The biggest part of this is that we have THREE branches of government that are supposed to operate in a system of checks and balances. Defunding Planned Parenthood wasn’t done by fiat or executive order. It was a duly enacted law by Congress and signed by the President. There has to be, MUST BE, a valid legal reason for issuing this injunction and trying to order Congress AND the President to unwrite that law. 

Judge Talwani did not offer ANY legal reasoning as to why she thought the two-week injunction was necessary. And no, saying Planned Parenthood showed “good cause” is NOT a legal justification by any stretch of the imagination. 

Quite frankly, the U.S. Supreme Court needs to step up and start Gibbs slapping these activist judges upside the head with the Constitution. They are reckless and out of control. 

Her injunction goes completely against all that our Constitution stands for. This crap really needs to stop. And quite honestly, I’d say that Congress and the Trump Administration are well within their purview to ignore her injunction. 

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