Texas judge suspends abortion pill approval

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This judge is a joke to the judiciary and to the rule of law. I would hope the more seasoned jurists on the Fifth Circuit will set this right. If they don’t, I am perfectly fine with the Biden administration ignoring the judge and letting the Marshals figure out how to enforce these decisions. As a lawyer, I don’t say this lightly.

These judges are flirting with danger. I don’t think many of them truly comprehend the level of disgust and hatred people are developing for the fundamentalist fanatics trying to take over our country. They are hoping for a righteous civil war a la Iran, and are convinced God is on their side. The world has changed, and Americans have changed. The outcome these days is more likely to be a mass purging of the fundies from all aspects of civil life and the severe constriction of religious practice in America. And they will have brought it all on themselves.

LOL at the 5th Circuit. They’ll follow the judge. It’s up to,SCOTUS. Which, shockingly, won’t believe in states rights re:abortion anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Part of the Judges rationale was protecting women from PTSD after seeing the productions of abortion. Which at 6-10 weeks look like a heavy period.

Wait until he hears about the PTSD some women have after giving birth.

Such a patronizing twat.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
This judge is a joke to the judiciary and to the rule of law. I would hope the more seasoned jurists on the Fifth Circuit will set this right. If they don’t, I am perfectly fine with the Biden administration ignoring the judge and letting the Marshals figure out how to enforce these decisions. As a lawyer, I don’t say this lightly.

These judges are flirting with danger. I don’t think many of them truly comprehend the level of disgust and hatred people are developing for the fundamentalist fanatics trying to take over our country. They are hoping for a righteous civil war a la Iran, and are convinced God is on their side. The world has changed, and Americans have changed. The outcome these days is more likely to be a mass purging of the fundies from all aspects of civil life and the severe constriction of religious practice in America. And they will have brought it all on themselves.


LOL at the 5th Circuit. They’ll follow the judge. It’s up to,SCOTUS. Which, shockingly, won’t believe in states rights re:abortion anymore.

This is unfathomable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This judge is a joke to the judiciary and to the rule of law. I would hope the more seasoned jurists on the Fifth Circuit will set this right. If they don’t, I am perfectly fine with the Biden administration ignoring the judge and letting the Marshals figure out how to enforce these decisions. As a lawyer, I don’t say this lightly.

These judges are flirting with danger. I don’t think many of them truly comprehend the level of disgust and hatred people are developing for the fundamentalist fanatics trying to take over our country. They are hoping for a righteous civil war a la Iran, and are convinced God is on their side. The world has changed, and Americans have changed. The outcome these days is more likely to be a mass purging of the fundies from all aspects of civil life and the severe constriction of religious practice in America. And they will have brought it all on themselves.


LOL at the 5th Circuit. They’ll follow the judge. It’s up to,SCOTUS. Which, shockingly, won’t believe in states rights re:abortion anymore.

This is unfathomable.

It’s actually where many of us warned people that the GOP was going to go. I’m enjoying the vindication, especially after all the nasty names and implications I and all the others were subject to, but I’d rather have been wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This judge is a joke to the judiciary and to the rule of law. I would hope the more seasoned jurists on the Fifth Circuit will set this right. If they don’t, I am perfectly fine with the Biden administration ignoring the judge and letting the Marshals figure out how to enforce these decisions. As a lawyer, I don’t say this lightly.

These judges are flirting with danger. I don’t think many of them truly comprehend the level of disgust and hatred people are developing for the fundamentalist fanatics trying to take over our country. They are hoping for a righteous civil war a la Iran, and are convinced God is on their side. The world has changed, and Americans have changed. The outcome these days is more likely to be a mass purging of the fundies from all aspects of civil life and the severe constriction of religious practice in America. And they will have brought it all on themselves.

LOL at the 5th Circuit. They’ll follow the judge. It’s up to,SCOTUS. Which, shockingly, won’t believe in states rights re:abortion anymore.

They'll have to. The precedent is awful. Some day it could impact an approved drug that they actually care about or use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This judge is a joke to the judiciary and to the rule of law. I would hope the more seasoned jurists on the Fifth Circuit will set this right. If they don’t, I am perfectly fine with the Biden administration ignoring the judge and letting the Marshals figure out how to enforce these decisions. As a lawyer, I don’t say this lightly.

These judges are flirting with danger. I don’t think many of them truly comprehend the level of disgust and hatred people are developing for the fundamentalist fanatics trying to take over our country. They are hoping for a righteous civil war a la Iran, and are convinced God is on their side. The world has changed, and Americans have changed. The outcome these days is more likely to be a mass purging of the fundies from all aspects of civil life and the severe constriction of religious practice in America. And they will have brought it all on themselves.

LOL at the 5th Circuit. They’ll follow the judge. It’s up to,SCOTUS. Which, shockingly, won’t believe in states rights re:abortion anymore.

They'll have to. The precedent is awful. Some day it could impact an approved drug that they actually care about or use.

You're assuming they feel bound by precedent. They don't. This judge blew through decades of federalist society precedent on standing, statutory construction, etc. to get to his ruling. It's all about the outcome with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
This judge is a joke to the judiciary and to the rule of law. I would hope the more seasoned jurists on the Fifth Circuit will set this right. If they don’t, I am perfectly fine with the Biden administration ignoring the judge and letting the Marshals figure out how to enforce these decisions. As a lawyer, I don’t say this lightly.

These judges are flirting with danger. I don’t think many of them truly comprehend the level of disgust and hatred people are developing for the fundamentalist fanatics trying to take over our country. They are hoping for a righteous civil war a la Iran, and are convinced God is on their side. The world has changed, and Americans have changed. The outcome these days is more likely to be a mass purging of the fundies from all aspects of civil life and the severe constriction of religious practice in America. And they will have brought it all on themselves.


LOL at the 5th Circuit. They’ll follow the judge. It’s up to,SCOTUS. Which, shockingly, won’t believe in states rights re:abortion anymore.


They'll have to. The precedent is awful. Some day it could impact an approved drug that they actually care about or use.

Talk about activist judges and "legislating from the bench". Wow.

[Anonymous]

Does the religious zealot judge think he'll get extra points from Jesus because he released his ruling on Good Friday?

I have a friend who takes this drug for Cushings disease - is she SOL now?

Hope Lisa Murkowski lost some sleep last night.

[Anonymous]

Why don't religious nut judges realize that people take this drug for other reasons than abortion?????????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This judge is a joke to the judiciary and to the rule of law. I would hope the more seasoned jurists on the Fifth Circuit will set this right. If they don’t, I am perfectly fine with the Biden administration ignoring the judge and letting the Marshals figure out how to enforce these decisions. As a lawyer, I don’t say this lightly.

These judges are flirting with danger. I don’t think many of them truly comprehend the level of disgust and hatred people are developing for the fundamentalist fanatics trying to take over our country. They are hoping for a righteous civil war a la Iran, and are convinced God is on their side. The world has changed, and Americans have changed. The outcome these days is more likely to be a mass purging of the fundies from all aspects of civil life and the severe constriction of religious practice in America. And they will have brought it all on themselves.


LOL at the 5th Circuit. They’ll follow the judge. It’s up to,SCOTUS. Which, shockingly, won’t believe in states rights re:abortion anymore.

This is unfathomable.

No, it's not. It's what republicans and their evangelicals have been promising to do for over a decade. It's not even a surprise at this point.

[Anonymous]

My civil procedure is rusty, but I don’t think the Supreme Court can do anything about the Washington injunction unless someone appeals it. And DOJ has not appealed it yet. We may end up in the odd situation where DOJ has to choose between two equally binding injunctions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A stay is in effect for 7 days. If the ban on FDA’s approval of mifepristone is allowed to go into effect this could also impact chemotherapy drugs, asthma medicine, blood pressure pills, and insulin .., more medical collateral damage due to anti abortion extremism. .. as if maternity death rates and maternity medical services rapidly closing in red antiabortion states was not bad enough … thank you Judge Rice for your counter injunction!

From Heather Cox Richardson’s well researched daily newsletter for yesterday April 7.

This Friday night’s news dump is a biggie: Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an antiabortion Trump appointee, has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug mifepristone in 2000 was flawed and must be suspended. In the 23 years since its approval, the drug has been widely proved to be safe, and this is the first time a court has ordered the FDA to remove a drug from the market.

Mifepristone is used to induce abortions as well as for other medical applications. Although the Supreme Court argued last year in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, that getting rid of Roe would enable states to make their own decisions about abortion, Kacsmaryk’s decision would remove mifepristone across the entire United States. Mifepristone accounts for about 53% of medically induced abortions.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has led the administration's policy on reproductive rights, noted that Kacsmaryk’s decision does not simply impact abortion: it opens the door to politicizing chemotherapy drugs, asthma medicine, blood pressure pills, insulin, and so on.

Kacsmaryk also said that mailing mifepristone across state lines is illegal based on the Comstock Act, which Congress passed in 1873, making it illegal to send contraceptive materials through the mail. He went further than that, though, going far beyond the Dobbs decision to embrace the concept that a fertilized egg is an “unborn human” from the time of conception.

He stayed the ruling for a week to give the government time to respond.

President Joe Biden vowed to fight the ruling. He noted that the Department of Justice has already filed an appeal and will seek an immediate stay. “But let’s be clear,” he wrote, “the only way to stop those who are committed to taking away women’s rights and freedoms in every state is to elect a Congress who will pass a law restoring Roe versus Wade. Vice President Harris and I will continue to lead the fight to protect a woman’s right to an abortion, and to make her own decisions about her own health. That is our commitment.”

Less than an hour after Kacsmaryk’s ruling, federal judge Thomas O. Rice in Washington state issued an injunction prohibiting the FDA from pulling mifepristone from the market

1. Terrible precedent of non medical legal interference in medical decisions. This medicine was used safely for 23 years.
2. Using 150 year old law to ban even mailing the abortion pill between states.
3. Ban will mess up life saving medication needed for much existing human life.


Many main stream Christians support women’s reproductive rights and prudent science. It is infuriating that so much harm is being done to women and existing life in the name of Christianity. Jesus and the OT prophets had nothing to say about abortion but there are thousands of references in the Bible to helping the poor and vulnerable. Many of us mainstream Christians reject this misuse of our religion to justify immoral treatment of existing life and religious interference in medical decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
This judge is a joke to the judiciary and to the rule of law. I would hope the more seasoned jurists on the Fifth Circuit will set this right. If they don’t, I am perfectly fine with the Biden administration ignoring the judge and letting the Marshals figure out how to enforce these decisions. As a lawyer, I don’t say this lightly.

These judges are flirting with danger. I don’t think many of them truly comprehend the level of disgust and hatred people are developing for the fundamentalist fanatics trying to take over our country. They are hoping for a righteous civil war a la Iran, and are convinced God is on their side. The world has changed, and Americans have changed. The outcome these days is more likely to be a mass purging of the fundies from all aspects of civil life and the severe constriction of religious practice in America. And they will have brought it all on themselves.


LOL at the 5th Circuit. They’ll follow the judge. It’s up to,SCOTUS. Which, shockingly, won’t believe in states rights re:abortion anymore.

This is unfathomable.

No, it isn't.

We were being called hysterical on the hundred page thread, on the Kavanaugh thread, you name it. The GOP and Evangelical right have been telling us for decades their plans. And this won't stop. As long as we have hack Trump-appointed/McConnell approved judges, this will be an issue, as every Evangelical attorney knows where to go to get this kind of result.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A stay is in effect for 7 days. If the ban on FDA’s approval of mifepristone is allowed to go into effect this could also impact chemotherapy drugs, asthma medicine, blood pressure pills, and insulin .., more medical collateral damage due to anti abortion extremism. .. as if maternity death rates and maternity medical services rapidly closing in red antiabortion states was not bad enough … thank you Judge Rice for your counter injunction!

From Heather Cox Richardson’s well researched daily newsletter for yesterday April 7.

This Friday night’s news dump is a biggie: Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an antiabortion Trump appointee, has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug mifepristone in 2000 was flawed and must be suspended. In the 23 years since its approval, the drug has been widely proved to be safe, and this is the first time a court has ordered the FDA to remove a drug from the market.

Mifepristone is used to induce abortions as well as for other medical applications. Although the Supreme Court argued last year in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, that getting rid of Roe would enable states to make their own decisions about abortion, Kacsmaryk’s decision would remove mifepristone across the entire United States. Mifepristone accounts for about 53% of medically induced abortions.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has led the administration's policy on reproductive rights, noted that Kacsmaryk’s decision does not simply impact abortion: it opens the door to politicizing chemotherapy drugs, asthma medicine, blood pressure pills, insulin, and so on.

Kacsmaryk also said that mailing mifepristone across state lines is illegal based on the Comstock Act, which Congress passed in 1873, making it illegal to send contraceptive materials through the mail. He went further than that, though, going far beyond the Dobbs decision to embrace the concept that a fertilized egg is an “unborn human” from the time of conception.

He stayed the ruling for a week to give the government time to respond.

President Joe Biden vowed to fight the ruling. He noted that the Department of Justice has already filed an appeal and will seek an immediate stay. “But let’s be clear,” he wrote, “the only way to stop those who are committed to taking away women’s rights and freedoms in every state is to elect a Congress who will pass a law restoring Roe versus Wade. Vice President Harris and I will continue to lead the fight to protect a woman’s right to an abortion, and to make her own decisions about her own health. That is our commitment.”

Less than an hour after Kacsmaryk’s ruling, federal judge Thomas O. Rice in Washington state issued an injunction prohibiting the FDA from pulling mifepristone from the market

1. Terrible precedent of non medical legal interference in medical decisions. This medicine was used safely for 23 years.
2. Using 150 year old law to ban even mailing the abortion pill between states.
3. Ban will mess up life saving medication needed for much existing human life.


Many main stream Christians support women’s reproductive rights and prudent science. It is infuriating that so much harm is being done to women and existing life in the name of Christianity. Jesus and the OT prophets had nothing to say about abortion but there are thousands of references in the Bible to helping the poor and vulnerable. Many of us mainstream Christians reject this misuse of our religion to justify immoral treatment of existing life and religious interference in medical decisions.

Well, then I expect those Christians vote for Democrats for the next 4-6 cycles until the courts are balanced and the Evangelical wing of the party is eradicated from any leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My civil procedure is rusty, but I don’t think the Supreme Court can do anything about the Washington injunction unless someone appeals it. And DOJ has not appealed it yet. We may end up in the odd situation where DOJ has to choose between two equally binding injunctions.