Can a State Attorney General Intervene in a Case to Defend a State Anti-Abortion Law After an Appellate Panel Struck the Law, When a Different Attorney General Previously Voluntarily Withdrew from the Case, Renounced Authority to Enforce the Law, and Agreed to Abide by the Court's Ruling?

CASE AT A GLANCE An abortion clinic and two abortion doctors sued Kentucky state officials to halt Kentucky H.B. 454, which criminalized the most common second-trimester abortion. The state attorney general renounced authority to enforce the law and withdrew from the case, leaving only the secretary of Kentucky's Cabinet for Health and Family Services to defend the law. The district court and a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck the law. The secretary declined to seek en banc review at the Sixth Circuit or to file a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court. The attorney general--a different one than before--then moved to intervene to do so.
Cameron v. EMW Women's Surgical Center, P.S.C. Docket No. 20-601 Argument Date: October 12, 2021 From: The Sixth Circuit Introduction Rule 24 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows [...]