A12 The News-eNTerprise Friday, October 8, 2021
BY TESSA REDMONDKENTUCKY TODAY
FRANKFOR T — On Tuesday, the Kentucky Of fice of the Attorney General will argue Cam-eron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center before the Supreme Court.
“Less than one week from today, our deputy solicitor general, Matt Kuhn, will stand before the Supreme Court and advocate for the ability of this office to continue our defense of House Bill 454, which is the ban on live dismemberment abortions,” said Attorney General Daniel Camer-on in a news conference Wednesday at the Cap-itol. “Our whole team is honored to have this opportunity to represent Kentucky at the highest court in the land.”
House Bill 454 passed in the General Assem-b ly wi th b ipar t i san suppor t in 2018. After being signed into law by then-Gov. Matt Bevin, it immediately was chal-lenged in court.
When a federal district cour t blocked the law from going into ef fect, the Of fice of Attorney General was asked by Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration to defend the law before a panel of judges at the Sixth Cir-cuit Cour t of Appeals. But when the cour t r uled against House Bill 454, “the governor’s team decided to wash their hands of the case”
instead of asking for a re-hearing of the deci-sion, Cameron said.
“Because I made it clear that our of fice would defend the laws passed by our General Assembly, we asked to intervene as the repre-sentative of the com-monwealth,” said Cam-eron, a former Eliza-bethtown resident. “The Sixth Circuit said, ‘No.’ But we weren’t willing to take no for an answer.”
While the Supreme Cour t’s ruling on the case wil l impact the defense of a pro-life bill, the crux of the case is state sovereignty and the ability of the com-monwealth to appoint an individual to defend
state law.“If we ultimately pre-
vail, the cour t will be saying without question that a state has a right to defend itself with the of ficial or representa-tive of its choosing, that regardless of what other agencies or branches of government might decide, that here in Ken-tucky, the Attorney Gen-eral’s office stands as a failsafe to ensure that the commonwealth’s laws can a lways be defended,” said Camer-on, a Republican.
Senate President Rob-er t Stivers, Rep. Joe Fischer, R-Campbell , pro-life caucus co-chair Nancy Tate of Branden-burg and former Rep.
Addia Wuchner also spoke at the Wednesday press conference. Other state legislators gathered on the State Capitol steps in a show of support.
“House Bill 454, the Human Rights of the Unborn Child Act, was enacted to save … lives from violence, and (it) reminds us that human rights are a privilege. They’re not conferred by government,” said Wu c h n e r, w h o n o w ser ves as execut ive director of Kentucky Right to Life.
The Supreme Cour t will convene to hear the case at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Live audio of the ses-sion can be accessed at supremecourt.gov.
Cameron says AG staff proud to defend dismemberment law
Case to be heard Tuesday
before U.S. Supreme Court
TESSA REDMOND/Kentucky TodayKentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron held a news conference to discuss next week’s appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court.
BY TOM LATEKKENTUCKY TODAY
F R A N K F O R T — Supply chain issues and inflation brought on by the pandemic are causing problems in a variety of Kentucky’s e c o n o m -ic sec tors i n c l u d i n g agriculture, a legislative c o m m i t -t e e h e a r d Wednesday.
Agriculture C o m m i s -sioner Ryan Quarles told the Interim Joint Appro-p r i a t i o n s and Revenue Commit tee that supply chain issues are at a crit-ical point.
“Our farmers, in the middle of harvest, are just one worn out part, a broken part, away from being shut down for two or three weeks,” he said. “It’s kind of ironic that a half-million-dollar piece of equipment can be shut down for a $30 part.”
Quarles says this is not just a short-term issue.
“We’re starting to see increases in input costs going into the spring of 2022, most notably on fertilizer and parts. We have barges that contain the parts that we need, which are not being unloaded, and of course, if you’re shipping out, there’s a shor tage of shipping containers.”
While net farm cash receipts from crops are expected to go up this year, Quarles says that’s
not the whole story. Feed costs increase whenever grain prices go up, he said.
A labor shor tage is a n o t h e r p r o b l e m for the agri-c u l t u r e i n d u s t r y , according to Quarles.
“ T h e r e are over 10 million jobs a v a i l a b l e in America right now. It’s hard to attract folks i n a g t o begin with; i t ’ s h a r d w o r k a n d y o u c a n ’ t ‘Zoom’ it in,” he said. “You have to show u p e v e r y
day despite the weather conditions and it’s really becoming an issue.”
There are other short-ages af fecting agricul-ture, Quarles said. “In the dairy industry, you’re seeing various types of containers, because they are having a hard time finding plastic bottles. Our friends in the bour-bon industry are having trouble finding glass bot-tles to put bourbon into right now. There are no shipments of bourbon going to some states because you can’t find the glass to bottle it.”
Tom Under wood , executive director of the Kentucky Wholesale Dis-tributors Association, said shortages also exist for a number of products at the wholesale level. As a result, he suggested any-one shopping for Christ-mas should do it now, to avoid being shut out.
Legislators hear bleak forecast for
farm economy
“Our farmers, in the middle of harvest, are just one worn out part, a broken part, away from being shut down for two or three weeks”— Ryan Quarles
Kentucky agricultural
commissioner
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESSLEXINGTON — A for-
mer Kentucky lawyer has filed a lawsuit against Face-book, accusing it of com-mitting fraud by suppress-ing his posts containing conservative viewpoints.
Eric Deters, a for-mer lawyer in Ohio and Northern Kentucky, is an avid supporter of former President Donald Trump and filed his lawsuit after he said he discovered that his posts weren’t being properly displayed to the public.
“Facebook’s so-called ‘community standards’ are NOT community standards,” Deters wrote in his lawsuit, according
to the Lexington Her-ald-Leader. “They are WOKE, liberal progres-sive standards that are NOT consistent with the Cincinnati/Northern Ken-tucky tristate community.”
Deters retired from practicing law in Ohio
after his license to prac-tice in Kentucky was suspended, according to the Kentucky Bar Association. The Ken-tucky Supreme Cour t denied his request to reinstate his l icense earlier this year.
Former lawyer sues Facebook, claiming it suppressed him
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