Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's fruitless attempt to get the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the unconstitutional Arkansas 12-week abortion ban law has cost the state another $25,000.
Open line. Also: Briefs were filed today on the Arkansas abortion law; the state Board of Education declared some schools in academic distress, and we have our daily video news headlines.
Federal Judge Susan Webber Wright has denied the state of Arkansas's motion to dismiss the ACLU-backed lawsuit challenging the new state law, passed over Gov. Mike Beebe's veto, to prevent most abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy.