A Brand-New Trump Judge Will Hear the Right’s Mifepristone Lawsuit Next

A Brand-New Trump Judge Will Hear the Right’s Mifepristone Lawsuit Next

Late last month, Texas federal district court judge Matthew Kacsmaryk transferred a long-running suit seeking to roll back access to the abortion drug mifepristone to a different federal district court, this one in Missouri. This high-stakes dispute should have been dismissed entirely after the Supreme Court swatted it away in June 2024. Instead, Kacsmaryk, a judge appointed by Trump during his first term in the White House, has handed the case …