Judicial activism is fine if you're a Republican judge

Kevin Drum nails it:

"Everyone knows mifepristone is safe. Everyone knows the FDA approval process in 2000 was fine. Everyone knows there's more than 20 years of real-world data to demonstrate mifepristone's safety. Everyone knows it's been approved for use throughout the entire world. Everyone knows why an obscure judge in a tiny jurisdiction in Texas is hearing this case. And everyone knows the case has nothing to do with safety anyway. It's just a way to make it harder to get an abortion.

"But we're all forced to play make believe and pretend there's a real case here. And conservatives are all fine with this because, despite their incessant whining about "judicial wokeness" or whatever their latest complaint is, they don't care one whit about judicial process. They just want the result they want.

"None of that matters, though. This Kacsmaryk dude is probably going to (a) ban mifepristone, (b) refuse to stay his ban while the case is appealed, and (c) get upheld by the 5th Circuit because they don't care about the law either. As for the Supreme Court, who knows anymore? Sam Alito promised us that courts couldn't interfere with abortion on a national basis, but he'll stroke his chin and solemnly pretend to believe this is really a question of whether the FDA overstepped its authority. And of course he'll agree that it did."

Feh.

https://jabberwocking.com/texas-judge-is-close-to-banning-medication-induced-abortion/