How “judge-mandering” is eroding trust in America’s judiciary
The assignment of judges to cases should be random, not political
When Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling in April 2023 suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, an abortion pill, Democrats were furious. How could a lone judge in small-town Texas deprive millions of American women of a drug that has been deemed by doctors to be safer than Tylenol?
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Stop judge-mandering”
Leaders May 11th 2024
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