Paul Blumenthal is a senior reporter with the HuffPost Politics team based in Washington, D.C. He covers courts, elections, political economy and political history.
The Judicial Conference of the United States announced new rules for the federal judiciary Tuesday that would prevent the practice of judge-shopping, where litigants choose where to file their suit based on the near-certain knowledge that a specific judge will hear their case.. Conservative activist groups have sought to block his administration’s policies by filing lawsuits in federal courthouses where they expect to draw a sympathetic conservative judge to hear their case.
Under the new rules, lawsuits filed in a single-judge district will not automatically be assigned to that judge. Instead, the case will be randomly assigned to a judge from the entire judicial district. Anti-abortion groups filed the suit to block the distribution of the medication abortion drug mifepristone in Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's court because they saw him as an ally.In 2021, Paxton filed suit in Kacsmaryk’s courthouse to block the Biden administration from reversing the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy. Kacsmaryk sided with Paxton and. His decision was eventually reversed by the U.S.
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