News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Nathan Hager. It is the first day of a new term for the Supreme Court, and already the justices have made some major moves on abortion rights and electoral law. First, the Supreme Court has rebuffed the Biden administration in a case out of Texas, favoring the lone Star state in a fight over the availability of abortion in hospital emergency rooms.
The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeal said Texas's broad abortion ban was not bound by a Health and Human Services memo that requires hospitals to offer abortions on an emergency basis to protect a mother's health. The Biden administration had asked the High Court to reconsider that ruling. The Justices have also turned away a challenge to President Biden's
three year old voter registration initiative without comment. They left in place a federal trial court order that twenty seven Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers lacked the legal standing to sue over President Biden's twenty twenty one executive order. And the Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from x formerly known as Twitter, which argued unsuccessfully that the company should not have been required to turnover records about former President Trump's
social media account to special counsel Jack Smith. One other note, the Supreme Court is also leaving in place a sixty five million dollar antitrust judgment against Martin Screlley, the so called farmer bro had tried to overturn his punishment over a scheme to control the market for the drug dereprim The Justices turned away that bid without comment. That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Nathan Hager, and this is Bloomberg