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.

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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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        7 months ago

        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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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      They’re right when looking at the specs. Took british common law then added a bunch of inalienable rights.

      We fucked up the implementation.