The 'rogue' Trump-appointed judge with abortion pill's future in his hands

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) Matthew Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in Texas appointed by Donald Trump, has a tendency to attract strong language. Every Democratic senator opposed his confirmation in 2019, with Chuck Schumer, the then minority leader, calling him “narrow-minded” and “bigoted”.

“Mr Kacsmaryk has demonstrated a hostility to the LGBTQ [community] bordering on paranoia,” Schumer said.

Only one Republican senator, Susan Collins from Maine, broke party ranks and voted against Kacsmaryk’s appointment for life. She also had harsh words, lamenting that his “extreme statements” on reproductive rights pointed to “an inability to respect precedent and to apply the law fairly and impartially”.

Soon Kacsmaryk, 46, will have the opportunity to prove Collins wrong or – as his many detractors fear – all too right. One of his most consequential decisions since joining the federal bench in the northern district of Texas could be delivered by the end of this month , in a case that has the potential to disrupt the lives and futures of millions of American women.

Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the next frontier in the war against abortion in the US. In it, a set of ideologically driven conservative Christian groups is inviting Kacsmaryk to impose a nationwide injunction that would in effect ban the abortion pill by nullifying the FDA’s medical approval of one of its key elements, mifepristone. ............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/10/judge-abortion-pill-ruling-trump-appointed-matthew-kacsmaryk

[dalton99a]

1. +1. How an obscure Christian right activist became one of the most powerful men in America:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/17/23512766/supreme-court-matthew-kacsmaryk-judge-trump-abortion-immigration-birth-control

How an obscure Christian right activist became one of the most powerful men in America
A rule governing federal courts in Texas turned a former lawyer for the religious right into one of the most powerful people in the United States.
By Ian Millhiser
Dec 17, 2022, 7:00am EST

[edhopper]

2. How does he have any legal authority

to do this?
The FDA should ignore his ruling.

[Doc Sportello]

3. Once again, right wing Catholic dogma is corrupting the judiciary

Alito, Kavanaugh, Scalia, the list is a long one.

From the article:

"Partisan ideology certainly stands out in Kacsmaryk’s background. Before being plucked out by Trump for the federal bench, he worked as deputy general counsel at the First Liberty Institute, a Christian law firm based in Plano, Texas, which opposes the separation of church and state and propagates anti-LGBTQ legal theories.

In his early writings he developed a colourful way of describing the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s and 70s. Same-sex relationships were “disordered” and “contrary to natural law”, he opined, basing his claims on the Catholic catechism."

Also, Leonard Leo is the head of the Federalist Society that is responsible for installing those judges, as well as Roberts, and Leo provided dump with a list of "approved" judicial appointees. He is also on a board of directors for Opus Dei.

https://churchandstate.org.uk/2019/03/opus-deis-influence-on-the-u-s-judiciary/

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility. 🤬