The Supreme Court decided on Feb. 24 not to hear a case challenging a 25-year-old precedent allowing governments to forbid outreach within a so-called bubble zone outside abortion clinics.
The nation’s highest court did not explain its new, unsigned order that denied the petition in Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale.
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the ruling. Justice Samuel Alito indicated he would have granted the petition but did not explain why. Alito did not join Thomas’s dissenting opinion.
The case arose from a now-rescinded Carbondale, Illinois, law that forbade outreach within a so-called bubble zone outside abortion clinics….