A list of orders the court released indicated it would not hear the dispute over the widely discredited practice, which about two dozen states prohibit or restrict. Three of the court’s nine justices — Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — said they would have let the case proceed. Thomas and Alito wrote dissents explaining why. Their positions underscored how the disagreements at the heart of the case are likely unsettled and may come up again at the high court.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson applauded the Supreme Court’s decision to pass over the case and to leave in place a federal appeals court ruling upholding the law.
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