Miscellaneous Political Stuff - Part 14

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday issued a request to set former President Donald Trump’s trial date for March 4, 2024, CNN’s Kaitlyn Collins reports on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.

Doesn’t surprise me. The 5th Circuit is one of the most conservative courts.

This isn’t really about the drug and its safety per se like the plaintiffs claim. That’s just a pretext. What this is really about is them wanting to completely cut off access to abortion.

Now to the Supreme Court. I hope they’re a little bit more leery now of siding completely with the anti-abortion crowd.  I'm sure they’ve seen how even in red states, voters are saying no to ballot measures that are anti-abortion. I’m guessing the SC may not take the draconian measure of removing Mifepristone off the market altogether, but they’ll maybe tinker around the edges and see which expanded access they can get rid of.

Medias Touch, Texas Paul
All about Rep Ronny Jackson's rodeo adventure...

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And a new collaboration...

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The judges opinion in the case is really messed up.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-16-2023?r=1f0orz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Judge James Ho, who was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow’s library in 2018 (Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz was also there), wrote his own opinion in the case in order to expand on what he sees as “the historical pedigree of Plaintiffs’ conscience injury, and to explore how Plaintiffs suffer aesthetic injury as well.”

Antiabortion doctors suffer a moral injury when they are forced to help patients who have complications from the use of mifepristone, Ho wrote, because they are forced to participate in an abortion against their principles.

Those doctors also experience an aesthetic injury when patients choose abortion because, as one said, “When my patients have chemical abortions, I lose the opportunity…to care for the woman and child through pregnancy and bring about a successful delivery of new life.” Indeed, Ho wrote, “It’s well established that, if a plaintiff has ‘concrete plans’ to visit an animal’s habitat and view that animal, that plaintiff suffers aesthetic injury when an agency has approved a project that threatens the animal.”

In cases where the government “approved some action—such as developing land or using pesticides—that threatens to destroy…animal or plant life that plaintiffs wish to enjoy,” that injury “is redressable by a court order holding unlawful and setting aside the agency approval. And so too here. The FDA has approved the use of a drug that threatens to destroy the unborn children in whom Plaintiffs [that is, the antiabortion doctors] have an interest.”

“Unborn babies are a source of profound joy for those who view them,” Ho wrote. “Expectant parents eagerly share ultrasound photos with loved ones. Friends and family cheer at the sight of an unborn child. Doctors delight in working with their unborn patients—and experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted.”

The decision will be on hold until the appeals process is completed.

Sorry, too early for me to answer politely.

Hey, tom Cotton, we did beat TFG and many others through the ballot box. It is you supporting a criminal..

I did some digging and resurrected this interesting article..
Long but valuable..

These 'brutal quotes' from Justice Alito could undermine Texas federal judge’s abortion pill ruling
Meaghan Ellis, AlterNet
April 11, 2023, 2:12 PM ET

In a new piece published by The New York Times, Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak pointed out a number of Alito's previous quotes where he criticized judges for making decisions similar to the one made by Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.
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Liptak began with an overview of what transpired last week as he noted how the ruling encroaches on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) authority.

Liptak then highlighted Alito's previous remarks about overruling the FDA. Back in 2020, Alito criticized a Maryland judge's decision in the case of the FDA v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, involving "a dispute over whether abortion patients should have an easier time obtaining a pill used as part of a two-drug regimen to terminate a pregnancy," according to a Vox report.

Liptak wrote, "In 2020, in an earlier encounter with the case, Justice Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, expressed incredulity that 'a district court judge in Maryland took it upon himself to overrule the FDA. on a question of drug safety.'"

He added, "In a dissent in 2009, Justice Alito, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia, praised the agency’s expertise, saying 'the FDA has the benefit of the long view.'"

Liptak also noted:

The majority had ruled that the agency’s approval of a drug had not displaced injured plaintiffs’ ability to sue under state law. Justice Alito disagreed. "Where the FDA determines, in accordance with its statutory mandate, that a drug is on balance "safe," he wrote, the court’s precedents "prohibit any state from countermanding that determination."

In wake of the Texas ruling, some legal experts have also weighed in with their concerns. Mary Ziegler, University of California, Davis historian and law professor, has described the ruling as "boundary testing."

“If you’re a justice looking for a case in which to undermine the administrative state, this is not a particularly elegant one,” said Ziegler. “Everything about this case makes it an imperfect vehicle, except for the fact that it’s about abortion and the administrative state. This is boundary testing.”

www.rawstory.com/these-brutal-quotes-from-justice-alito-could-undermine-texas-federal-judges-abortion-pill-ruling/#cxrecs_s

Tom Cotton: “…the woman in Atlanta…” Like Fani Willis is just some rando who’s so inconsequential that there’s no need to even speak her name.

Well, we’ll see what happens because “the woman in Atlanta” is all business. Has Cotton looked at published photos of her? Does she look like she can be intimidated by Trump and his goons? Hell, “the woman” takes on murderous gangs.

This medicine isn’t just used for abortions but some with type 2 diabetes snd those with cushings disease take it. Doesn’t it get combined with another drug for abortions? If it’s pulled I wonder what happen to those that take it regularly I have no idea if there are alternatives but it’s horrible to think those patients may have to switch yo another medicine that may not work as well or they would already be in it.

Oh I forgot it could be used for that as well. Let’s make miscarriages even more dangerous 😡. I still can’t get over the fact that maternal mortality has gone up so much in the last 30 years or so.