The Trump administration is moving to preserve a potentially seismic financial case against the nation’s largest facilitator of abortions, Planned Parenthood, as Republicans’ midterm collapse threatens to dismantle a powerful engine of anti-abortion litigation in Texas. The Justice Department notified a federal court Friday that it plans to intervene in the Medicaid billing lawsuit seeking […]

The Trump administration is moving to preserve a potentially seismic financial case against the nation’s largest facilitator of abortions, Planned Parenthood, as Republicans’ midterm collapse threatens to dismantle a powerful engine of anti-abortion litigation in Texas.
The Justice Department notified a federal court Friday that it plans to intervene in the Medicaid billing lawsuit seeking more than $1.8 billion. The move came days after Democrat Nathan Johnson won the election in Texas to succeed Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, the case’s political champion.
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