With The Hawley Family Business’ Mifepristone Case Now Before The Supreme Court, Here’s What People Need to Know
Josh Hawley, his wife, and his allies got a favorable ruling “filled with activists’ language (after judge shopping) from a campaign donor turned federal judge. Hawley has used his office to support his wife’s case before the Supreme Court today.
Independence, MO — Today, Lucas Kunce released a thread detailing Josh Hawley’s pivotal role in today’s Supreme Court case, traced all the way back to political donations he received from Judge Kacsmaryk.
Here is what people need to know about the history behind this case:
- Matthew Kacsmaryk was tapped to be a federal judge, but his confirmation stalls out and faces bipartisan opposition due to his obsession with using the courts to control people’s lives. Recently, we learned that this Judge even tried to hide how bad his record really was.
- The Dallas Morning News – John Cornyn says Judge Kacsmaryk should not have taken name off anti-abortion article
- Judge Kacsmaryk decides to take action into his own hands and donates to then-candidate Josh Hawley’s U.S. Senate campaign. Both are members of the Federalist Society.
- Jezebel – Let’s Look at Senator Josh Hawley’s Connections to the Abortion Pill Case
- Ms. Magazine – Far-Right Fifth Circuit Judges Appear Determined to Remove Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone
- The Nation – The Federalist Society uses billionaire funds and right-wing ideology to remake the law.
- Months later, now U.S. Senator Josh Hawley provides one of the decisive votes to confirm Kacsmaryk’s nomination to the court, despite bipartisan opposition.
- Newsweek – Susan Collins’ Dire Warning About Matthew Kacsmaryk Proven True
- Fast forward to 2022. Alliance Defending Freedom, which has a history of working with Hawley, wants to file a lawsuit to ban an abortion pill that millions have used safely. So they go “judge shopping,”
- The New Yorker – The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe
- CNBC – Abortion pill ruling puts ‘judge shopping’ concerns back in spotlight
- ADF finds their judge in the Northern District court of Texas, a Josh Hawley campaign donor turned federal Judge — Matthew Kazmaryk. And ADF decides to pay Erin Hawley, Josh Hawley’s wife, to lead their lawsuit.
- Vanity Fair – Erin Morrow Hawley Is Leading the Charge to Ban Abortion Medication. She’s Also Josh Hawley’s Wife. The Texas federal judge overseeing the lawsuit made a past donation to her husband’s campaign.
- Hawley’s donor judge, that was shopped, ruled in favor of the lawsuit led by Hawley’s wife, calling for an immediate ban on the country’s most commonly used abortion drug in all 50 states.
- New York Times – Judge’s Ruling Against Abortion Pill Is Filled With Activists’ Language
- ABC – Unprecedented Texas abortion pill ruling sparks debate about ‘judge shopping’
- With all the scrutiny over the corrupt practice of “judge shopping,” federal courts recently put forward new rules on how judges are selected for cases.
- NBC – Federal courts make it harder to ‘judge-shop’ as was done in abortion pill case
- But Josh Hawley, who’s helped uniquely use this system to benefit his wife’s case, is trying to stop the efforts to restrict “judge shopping.”
- Letter to Judge Robert Conrad
- Ahead of today’s Supreme Court Case, Josh Hawley used his Senate office to submit an amicus brief in support of his wife’s case.
- Jezebel – 145 GOP Members of Congress Ask Supreme Court to Slash Access to the Abortion Pill
Ahead of today’s Supreme Court case, Lucas Kunce released the following statement:
“Senators shouldn’t be in the business of using their position to benefit their family’s legal activism, especially if there is a financial incentive to do so. And there shouldn’t even be a hint of campaign donations impacting who, when, and how a judge gets on a court. In the U.S. Senate, I’ll vote to restore Roe. But I’ll also fight for rules to end corruption like this in our courts. I’ll file legislation to outlaw judge shopping for good, and to bar senators from voting on judicial nominees who’ve given to their campaigns.”