A Texas judge hearing a case that could throw into jeopardy access to the nation’s most common method of abortion is a former attorney for a Christian legal group who critics say is being sought out by conservative litigants because they believe he’ll be sympathetic to their causes
A former federal prosecutor and lawyer for the conservative First Liberty Institute, the judge has ruled against the Biden administration on other issues, including immigration. He was amonginstalled to the federal bench under Trump as part of a movement by the Republican president and Senate conservatives to shift the American judiciary to the right.
If Kacsmaryk rules against the drug, the Food and Drug Administration — which has approved using mifepristone — is expected to quickly appeal the ruling. Clinics have said they could carry on with using one other drug alone to terminate pregnancies if necessary but that approach is slightly less effective.
which required tens of thousands of migrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. In another case — brought by states challenging a Department of Labor rule — the Justice Department wrote in a recent court filing that “there is no apparent reason—other than judge shopping" that explains why the lawsuit was filed in Amarillo.
A year later, he signed a letter that quoted another article as describing the “belief that one is trapped in the body of the wrong sex” as a “fixed, irrational belief” that is “appropriately described as a delusion.”Kacsmaryk's nomination, citing what she described as an"alarming bias against the rights of LGBTQ Americans and disregard for Supreme Court precedents.
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