Every major policy issue is now also a courtroom battle, decided in increasingly partisan settings. And there’s no end in sight.
Matthew Kacsmaryk
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Anti-Abortion Activists Pushed Amarillo to Help Save the Mifepristone Case
Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.
Posted inLaw and Justice
America’s Fifth Circuit Problem
Judges are now fighting over the right to hear important policy cases.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Judge Shopping Ended—by Judges Themselves
Feral (and federal) district court judges attempted to seize control of national policy one too many times.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Stirrings of a Conservative Christian Rule of Law
The court case involving the FDA approval of mifepristone revealed a little too much about the conservative movement’s aims.
Posted inLaw and Justice
President Biden Must Appoint More Corporate Skeptics to Federal Courts
Republicans have been blasting right-wing propaganda at the judiciary for 50 years.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Democrats Struggle to Face the Illegitimate Court System
A few Democratic members of Congress understand what needs to be done. More should join them.
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Understanding the Latest Restrictions on Mifepristone
Today on TAP: These efforts will backfire on the right—but produce a lot of suffering along the way.
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Pharma Cash Built the Conservative Court Majority That Now Harms Pharma
Drug industry CEOs angrily dispute Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on mifepristone. But they spent millions on the Senate Republicans who confirmed him.
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Resisting Kacsmaryk
Today on TAP: In Los Angeles, both the DA and the sheriff say there’ll be no arrests or prosecutions when women take abortion pills, regardless of court rulings.