A quick follow-up to last week’s post: The Supreme Court today issued an order declining to grant review of the D.C. Circuit’s decision in the Abigail Alliance case. (Overturning a panel decision, the en banc D.C. Circuit ruled—correctly, in my judgment—that the Constitution does not confer a right for terminally ill persons to have access to experimental drugs that have passed the FDA’s Phase I clinical testing.)
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Ed Whelan holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is a regular contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog.
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