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The federal judge in a closely watched lawsuit that seeks to overturn federal approval of a widely used abortion pill has scheduled the first hearing in the case for this week, but he planned to delay making the public aware of it, according to people familiar with the case.
Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, of the Northern District in Texas, told lawyers in the case Friday that he was scheduling the hearing for Wednesday morning. However, he asked them not to disclose that information and said he would not enter it into the public court record until late Tuesday evening.
One person familiar with the case, which is being heard in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, said such steps were very irregular, especially for a case of intense public interest.
Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee who has written critically about Roe v. Wade and previously worked for a Christian conservative legal organization, told lawyers in a conference call Friday that he did not want the March 15 hearing to be disrupted, and that he wanted all parties involved to share their points in an orderly fashion, according to people familiar with the discussion.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-abortion-pill-case-set-114649528.html
Or he doesn't want everyone to see what a dumbass he is.
Girard442
(6,086 posts)He wants to turn everyone's life upside down -- but he doesn't want it to be inconveeeenient for himself.
mercuryblues
(14,547 posts)slightlv
(2,845 posts)he can live with the minor inconvenience he'll be subjected to, in comparison to the major disruption of women's lives he so loves to foist upon them, and other pregnant people.