'Makes the law suspect': Judge reaffirms order barring Trump admin from defunding Planned Parenthood
Source: Law & Crime
Jul 12th, 2025, 10:49 am
A federal judge has reasserted her order stopping the Trump administration from blocking Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood by way of President Donald Trump's newly-passed domestic policy bill.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani granted the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. and several of its member organizations' request for a 14-day temporary restraining order (TRO) on Monday after they provided declarations from employees that they were already being negatively affected by the provision, Section 71113(a) of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. However, in acting "expeditiously" on the request, the Barack Obama-appointed judge did not provide legal reasoning.
Her explanation – in the form of an amended order after the administration sought to have the TRO dissolved – came on Friday. "Where Section 71113 creates disruptions to healthcare with its implementation, a Temporary Restraining Order is necessary to prevent irreparable harm pending a hearing on Plaintiffs' request for a Preliminary Injunction," the Boston-based judge wrote.
"Further, at this stage, the court finds Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on at least some of their claims that Section 71113 is unconstitutional where the provision excludes 'affiliates' from receiving Medicaid funding," she added, referring to language in the bill and citing the Supreme Court precedent that it has "long understood as implicit in the right to engage in activities protected by the First Amendment a corresponding right to associate with others."
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Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25997018-pp-defund-amended-order/
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25997018/pp-defund-amended-order.pdf