Trump-Appointed Judge Cites Wildlife Cases As a Reason to Ban Abortion Pills
Trump-Appointed Judge Cites Wildlife Cases As a Reason to Ban Abortion PillsBut Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho—who was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas in GOP megadonor Harlan Crow’s library in 2018—wanted his colleagues go even further. He would have fully reversed the Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion pill, and he used some uh, wild, reasons to support his argument. Ho wrote in his unhinged concurrence that the plaintiffs, a group of anti-abortion doctors, have standing in the case because they like looking at babies, and the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill deprives them of that right. He cites “aesthetic injury” precedent from past cases involving federal decisions that threatened wildlife and plants:
Ho cites cases including Sierra Club v. Morton from 1972 and Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife from 1992 and others in which courts granted standing for various parties to sue, like when a government agency allowed more hunting “depleting the supply of animals . . . that . . . [plaintiffs] seek to view,” or an agency authorized the use of pesticides that would harm “beetles and butterflies that plaintiffs intended to view,” or permitting for development that would “diminish the wildlife population visible to [birdwatchers].’”
It’s....pretty close to comparing women and pregnant people to wild animals! And he kept going!
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I actually meant to include this in a previous post I made about Judge Ho, but I got lazy and left it as-is: DU - Judge James Ho (CA5) is a Clarence Thomas stunt double (re mifepristone case)
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Right?!
…nicknamed Peanut. She’s supposed to enter 7th grade in a few weeks. From the description I read, she and her family are expressing all kinds of overwhelming aesthetic pleasure every time they look at that kid. 
Have I mentioned today just how much I hate American right wingers?
Can we revoke his membership with our species? 
The parallel is in claiming the legal precedent. Fetuses are to doctors and presumably future passersby who would have enjoyed coochy-cooing at them in parks as birds are to those who'd enjoy "oh-looking" at them.
ProPublica and others confirmed Ho's swearing in by Thomas in Harlan Crow's Dallas library some time ago.
So did Cancun Cruz proudly at the time, though he didn't mention where this photo was taken.
It was a very depressing read.
I was sighing just about after every paragraph.
