Schumer Threatens Legislation If Texas Federal Court Won’t Discourage Judge-Shopping

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has threatened to push legislation to force a federal district court in Texas that has repeatedly ruled against the Biden administration to discourage alleged forum-shopping by Republican plaintiffs.
Schumer is among Democrats who are angry that Texas-based Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, has issued a series of rulings opposed by Democrats.
Based in the single-judge Amarillo Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Kacsmaryk infuriated pro-abortion activists when he issued a ruling on April 7 finding that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was wrong to approve the abortion drug mifepristone for public use in 2000….}

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