Texas Trump Judge: States Can Sue Over Abortion Pills

January 17, 2025 Christianists, Trump cultists

Houston’s CBS affiliate reports:

A judge in Texas ruled Thursday that three other states can move ahead with their effort to roll back federal rules and make it harder for people across the U.S. to access the abortion drug mifepristone. The states of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri made the request in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas. The only judge based there is Matthew Kacsmaryk, a nominee of former President Donald Trump who previously ruled in favor of a challenge to the pill’s approval.

Kacsmaryk said they shouldn’t be automatically discounted from suing in Texas just because they’re outside the state. The American Civil Liberties Union said the case should have been settled when the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously preserved access to mifepristone. Kacsmaryk’s decision “has left the door open for extremist politicians to continue attacking medication abortion in his courtroom,” the ACLU said.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed multiple lawsuits in Kacsmaryk’s district, perhaps most notably in an attempt to ban birth control for teenagers.

Last year Kacsmaryk appeared here when he blocked LGBTQ student protections.

Kacsmaryk, a former lawyer for an anti-LGBTQ hate group, was exposed in 2023 for failing to disclose millions in stock holdings.

Kacsmaryk was previously exposed for failing to disclose viciously anti-LGBTQ interviews and acting to hide his authorship of an anti-abortion article ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing.



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