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Chuck DarwinBreaking: Judge who wanted to <a href="https://c.im/tags/ban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ban</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/mifepristone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mifepristone</a> refuses to dismiss caseDespite SCOTUS's ruling that the original plaintiffs lacked standing, Judge Matthew <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kacsmaryk</a> is allowing three non-Texas states to keep the lawsuit going in his court. <a href="https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-judge-who-wanted-to-ban" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-judge-who-wanted-to-ban</a>

Chuck DarwinThe Maga legal networks that could 💥topple Planned Parenthood 💥and gut women’s healthcare:In the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency, a young lawyer with crisply shorn blond hair approached the podium at a gathering for Texas members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that wields immense power in the US judicial system. As vice-president of the group’s Fort Worth chapter, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matthew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Matthew</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kacsmaryk</a> had the honor of presenting the first speaker.“We are blessed to have Judge <a href="https://c.im/tags/Edith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Edith</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jones</a>,” Kacsmaryk announced. Jones, a longtime judge on the US fifth circuit court of appeals, stepped on stage to introduce the evening’s guest, her friend, the supreme court justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Clarence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thomas</a>. In her introduction, Jones also hailed the four new conservative judges Trump had appointed to join her on the appeals court.“They’ve raised the bar for the fifth circuit since I got on,” she said. “And that’s thanks to the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Federalist</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Society</a>, to Leonard.”<a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Leonard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Leo</a> needed no last name in his introduction to this crowd as he took his seat in a black leather chair across from Thomas. The justice was the featured speaker but Leo may have been the most important person in the American legal system in that room – a conservative activist who had built the Federalist Society into a political powerhouse and helped Trump create the supreme court majority that, in 2022, erased federal protections for abortion.His influence continues to be on display now in one of the most consequential cases moving through the American legal system – one that seeks to strike another blow to abortion rights 💥and could possibly bankrupt Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare for women. It’s a lawsuit that has been filed by an anti-abortion activist tied to Leo and heard by judges – from the lower courts to the fifth circuit appeals court – who are also linked to LeoThree of the people on the stage at the Federalist Society event in Fort Worth in 2018 – Kacsmaryk, Jones and Leo – have all played key roles in the case. Though the stakes in this case couldn’t be higher for one of the nation’s oldest healthcare providers, it is about more than abortion or healthcare. The lawsuit is a parable about Leo’s power amid a presidential election season whose outcome will probably determine to what extent Leo will continue to reshape the makeup and ideology of the nation’s courts.The case was filed in February 2021 by an anti-abortion activist who had conducted what he described as an “extensive undercover investigation” of the organization. He accuses Planned Parenthood of fraud – claiming that it owes $1.8bn in fines, fees and reimbursements to the Medicaid program. It’s an amount that could force the 108-year-old nonprofit healthcare provider to shutter clinics across the country.The lawsuit is titled "USA v Planned Parenthood" because it was filed under a federal whistleblower law that allows citizens to sue on behalf of the US government over allegations that federal programs have been defrauded. It is the latest in a series of legal actions that started in 2015 after Texas’s health officials used footage from the activist’s hidden-camera recordings as a basis to expel Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program.The activist and his allies claimed the videos showed Planned Parenthood was illegally selling fetal tissue and endangering pregnant people’s health.Planned Parenthood repeatedly denied wrongdoing. Investigations in multiple states triggered by the video resulted in no disciplinary action against the healthcare provider.The US government – the source of 90% of the Medicaid funds paid to Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas – disputes that Planned Parenthood owes the federal government money. Federal officials say in a court filing that they found no evidence that Planned Parenthood had improperly billed for its services and that they found no reason Planned Parenthood should have been removed from Medicaid. Experts in healthcare law expected the case to be dismissed quickly.Yet none of these facts are as important to understanding the significance of this case as knowing where it was filed: in the federal courthouse in Amarillo, Texas – home to zero Planned Parenthood clinics.This wasn’t an accident.The US district court in Amarillo is under the purview of the US fifth circuit court of appeals, making it likely that any upward appeals in Planned Parenthood’s case would be heard in the hard-right appeals court, including by judges appointed by Trump or other conservative stalwarts like Jones. And by the time the Planned Parenthood case was filed, Kacsmaryk – that young attorney on stage making introductions at the Federalist Society event in Texas – had been serving as the federal district court judge for Amarillo for nearly two years. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/22/maga-courts-planned-parenthood-case?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/22/maga-courts-planned-parenthood-case?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Leonard Leo’s Effort to Gut Planned Parenthood Threatens Myriad Health Services Years-long campaign by anti-abortion activists <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/leonard-leos-effort-to-gut-planned-parenthood-threatens-myriad-health-services" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/leonard-leos-effort-to-gut-planned-parenthood-threatens-myriad-health-services</a>* Leo, anti-abortion Catholic, connected to key players * case in fed. court in Amarillo where Matthew Kacsmaryk only judge * Kacsmaryk: Federalist Society member (chair: Leo)Texas, abortion <a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110697509011152834" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110697509011152834</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReproductiveRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReproductiveRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LeonardLeo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kacsmaryk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FederalistSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalistSociety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristianRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlannedParenthood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlannedParenthood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnablingFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnablingFascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a>

DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠MechanicThings That Matter, Desperately“Whether it’s <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Comstock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comstock</a>, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>, Judge <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Kacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kacsmaryk</a>, or <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JDVance</a>, women don’t need men to tell them what they can do. They just don’t.It’s hard to stay focused on just one issue in the times we live in, but <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Abortion</a> is a big deal. It’s important in and of itself—it’s health care, it’s the right to determine your own future, it’s the ability to preserve <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/fertility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fertility</a> or choose when it’s the right time to have a <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#family</a>But it’s also a marker of the larger issue of whether women are first-class citizens with the same rights as men. Donald Trump and J.D. Vance don’t think so.<a href="https://joycevance.substack.com/p/things-that-matter-desperately" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://joycevance.substack.com/p/things-that-matter-desperately</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️/1Excellent "follow-on" article:Again & again U.S. Supreme Court slaps down 5th Circuit New Orleans-based court, which hears Texas cases, pushing the federal judiciary to the right, even when it gets overturned by a higher court <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/02/5th-circuit-appeals-supreme-court-texas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/02/5th-circuit-appeals-supreme-court-texas</a>* New Orleans-based 5th Circuit leaned right before President Donald Trump appointed 6 judges to bench * new judges, many trained in Texas’ conservative legal circles, attracted slew of ideologically-aligned cases<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Matthewacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Matthewacsmaryk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kacsmaryk</a>

NonilexIndividual <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/physicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physicians</a> & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AHM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AHM</a> filed suit in Amarillo, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a>, where the ONLY sitting Dist Court <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#judge</a> is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MatthewKacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MatthewKacsmaryk</a>, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> appointee known for longstanding opposition to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abortion</a>. [+ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/evangelical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evangelical</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christian</a> activist <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judicial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#judicial</a> opinions]  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kacsmaryk</a>’s 2023 ruling would have removed the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/medication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medication</a> from the market, but the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/5thCircuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#5thCircuit</a> scaled it back. It was the first time a judge suspended longtime approval of a medication despite oppo from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FDA</a> & the manufacturer.  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>

William Lindsey :toad:When your claim to be promoting a moral cause requires you to lie, you may want to reconsider whether you're actually promoting a moral cause. If you cannot convince people to adopt your moral cause by presenting them with facts and reasoning with them, you're admitting that your moral cause isn't as moral as you pretend it is.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abortion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/mifepristone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mifepristone</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Kacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kacsmaryk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/12/2222468/--Unreliable-Studies-cited-by-judge-in-2023-abortion-pill-case-have-been-retracted-by-publisher" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/12/2222468/--Unreliable-Studies-cited-by-judge-in-2023-abortion-pill-case-have-been-retracted-by-publisher</a>

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