The fate of the abortion pill mifepristone is now before the Supreme Court, after a fifth-circuit appeals panel of three judges ruled against its distribution last summer.
According to a new report, the wife of one of those judges—James Ho, a Trump appointee who previously served as the solicitor general of Texas—took at least six payments between 2018 and 2022 from the conservative legal group that brought the case to court.
I actually heard a (Republican, naturally) lawyer on NPR yesterday morning call the U.S. justice system the best one in the world.
If that’s true, the world is seriously fucked.
It’s all about perspective. Do you profit of prison labor? Do you get paid for defending pieces of shit? America sounds fuckin awesome for those people.
Considering this guy was a lawyer defending Republican politicians, there’s no question about the latter.
That said, he wasn’t 100% optimistic about Trump’s legal woes, so at least he’s a little worried.
We have more people locked up per capita than anywhere else; if that’s not a success measure I don’t know what is!
Excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a bit.
They’re right when looking at the specs. Took british common law then added a bunch of inalienable rights.
We fucked up the implementation.