Matthew J. Kacsmaryk
Fighting Back Against Lawless Judges: What Does The Case Law Actually Say?
Current standards for declaratory judgments could allow the Biden administration to pre-empt.
Three weeks ago, I argued that the Biden Administration should use the declaratory judgment as a way of pre-empting lawless judges like Matthew J. Kacsmaryk and Reed O’Connor, both of (of course) Texas. I fleshed out the idea in a recent piece for The American Prospect. Since then, the problem has only gotten worse, as …
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CONTINUE READINGHow Do You Solve A Problem Like A Lawless Judge?
Some counsel for the Justice Department from The Great One.
The eyes of nearly everyone are upon Texas – on Amarillo, specifically, where comically lawless federal Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk will soon decide if the FDA illegally approved the medication mifepristone, sometimes thought of as the “abortion pill.” One might think that it’s somewhat too late to challenge a two-decade old approval based upon impeccable …
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CONTINUE READINGA Great Victory For Electric Cars
But Beware: Neanderthal GOP Judges Are Waiting To Strike It Down
With all the attention being paid to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington, and the release of the January 6th Committee, you might have missed the (second) most important environmental story of the week: The U.S. Postal Service will buy 66,000 vehicles to build one of the largest electric fleets in the nation, Biden administration officials …
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