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Re: AOC Renews Calls for Biden Administration to Defy Federal Court Rulings
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Apr 24, 2023, 2:15:02 AM4/24/23
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> MattB. wrote
>
>> AOC is a whore. She can go fuck the judges and change their minds.
>>
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has doubled down on
calls for the Biden administration to defy federal courts, including the
nation’s highest, which she believes to be “a highly politicized entity
that is rapidly delegitimizing.”
Ocasio-Cortez argued earlier this month that the Biden administration
should ignore Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling suspending approval of
mifepristone, which is used in a regimen that constitutes the most common
method of procuring an abortion in the United States. The Department of
Justice appealed the ruling to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and then
the Supreme Court. On Friday, the high court stayed Kacsmaryk’s ruling in
full.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have denied the
applications for stays, with Alito writing that the applicants “have not
shown that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the interim.” One
line in Alito’s dissent drew a reaction from Ocasio-Cortez — namely, his
point that “the Government has not dispelled legitimate doubts that it
would even obey an unfavorable order in these cases, much less that it
would choose to take enforcement actions to which it has strong
objections.”
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In response, Ocasio-Cortez speculated on Twitter that she and others who
had supported defying federal courts contributed to the stay of
mifepristone’s suspension.
“The court is a political entity currently engaged in overreach and abuse
of power. In our system of checks and balances, SCOTUS’s reckless behavior
warrants a check from the leg + executive branches. This is not
unprecedented, it’s how our system is designed to avert tyranny,” Ocasio-
Cortez continued.
The representative’s comments on Friday follow an interview she gave to
Anderson Cooper on CNN in which she argued much the same.
“It is the justices themselves through the deeply partisan and unfounded
nature of these rulings that are undermining their own enforcement…It is
up to the Biden administration to choose whether or not to enforce such a
ruling,” she said.
“We are seeing a power grab over our courts in which the laws passed by
Congress and the rules and policies passed by the executive branch now are
going to require unanimous consent from 650 district court judges, many of
which are appointed with even the American Bar Association saying they’re
completely unfit for the role,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
The representative is not the only Democratic member of Congress that has
openly called for the federal courts to be ignored by the executive
branch. Senator Ron Wyden (D., Or.) said in a statement there was no way
Kacsmaryk’s order has a basis in the law.
“It is instead rooted in conservatives’ dangerous and undemocratic
takeover of our country’s institutions. No matter what happens in seven
days, I believe the Food and Drug Administration has the authority to
ignore this ruling, which is why I’m again calling on President Biden and
the FDA to do just that,” Wyden wrote.
These calls drew condemnation from many concerned with the rule of law.
Though the Wall Street Journal editorial board harbored doubts about
Kacsmaryk’s ruling, they thought the remarks of Wyden and Ocasio-Cortez
were beyond the pale.
“This is dangerous for the rule of law, and Democrats shouldn’t think
they’ll be the only politicians who pick up the Wyden Nullification
Doctrine. Southern Democrats called for ‘massive resistance’ to legal
orders in the 1950s after the Supreme Court’s school desegregation ruling
in Brown v. Board of Education. Is that now the Wyden-AOC model?,” the
editorial board wrote.
“There’s a risk the Administration will cave under progressive pressure if
the legal rulings don’t go its way. If it does, the U.S. will take another
giant step toward lawless politics,” the editorial board added.
<https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-renews-calls-biden-administration-
165503598.html>
news:sooa37$tpo$2...@news.dns-netz.com:
> MattB. wrote
>
>> AOC is a whore. She can go fuck the judges and change their minds.
>>
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has doubled down on
calls for the Biden administration to defy federal courts, including the
nation’s highest, which she believes to be “a highly politicized entity
that is rapidly delegitimizing.”
Ocasio-Cortez argued earlier this month that the Biden administration
should ignore Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling suspending approval of
mifepristone, which is used in a regimen that constitutes the most common
method of procuring an abortion in the United States. The Department of
Justice appealed the ruling to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and then
the Supreme Court. On Friday, the high court stayed Kacsmaryk’s ruling in
full.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have denied the
applications for stays, with Alito writing that the applicants “have not
shown that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the interim.” One
line in Alito’s dissent drew a reaction from Ocasio-Cortez — namely, his
point that “the Government has not dispelled legitimate doubts that it
would even obey an unfavorable order in these cases, much less that it
would choose to take enforcement actions to which it has strong
objections.”
- ADVERTISEMENT -
In response, Ocasio-Cortez speculated on Twitter that she and others who
had supported defying federal courts contributed to the stay of
mifepristone’s suspension.
“The court is a political entity currently engaged in overreach and abuse
of power. In our system of checks and balances, SCOTUS’s reckless behavior
warrants a check from the leg + executive branches. This is not
unprecedented, it’s how our system is designed to avert tyranny,” Ocasio-
Cortez continued.
The representative’s comments on Friday follow an interview she gave to
Anderson Cooper on CNN in which she argued much the same.
“It is the justices themselves through the deeply partisan and unfounded
nature of these rulings that are undermining their own enforcement…It is
up to the Biden administration to choose whether or not to enforce such a
ruling,” she said.
“We are seeing a power grab over our courts in which the laws passed by
Congress and the rules and policies passed by the executive branch now are
going to require unanimous consent from 650 district court judges, many of
which are appointed with even the American Bar Association saying they’re
completely unfit for the role,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
The representative is not the only Democratic member of Congress that has
openly called for the federal courts to be ignored by the executive
branch. Senator Ron Wyden (D., Or.) said in a statement there was no way
Kacsmaryk’s order has a basis in the law.
“It is instead rooted in conservatives’ dangerous and undemocratic
takeover of our country’s institutions. No matter what happens in seven
days, I believe the Food and Drug Administration has the authority to
ignore this ruling, which is why I’m again calling on President Biden and
the FDA to do just that,” Wyden wrote.
These calls drew condemnation from many concerned with the rule of law.
Though the Wall Street Journal editorial board harbored doubts about
Kacsmaryk’s ruling, they thought the remarks of Wyden and Ocasio-Cortez
were beyond the pale.
“This is dangerous for the rule of law, and Democrats shouldn’t think
they’ll be the only politicians who pick up the Wyden Nullification
Doctrine. Southern Democrats called for ‘massive resistance’ to legal
orders in the 1950s after the Supreme Court’s school desegregation ruling
in Brown v. Board of Education. Is that now the Wyden-AOC model?,” the
editorial board wrote.
“There’s a risk the Administration will cave under progressive pressure if
the legal rulings don’t go its way. If it does, the U.S. will take another
giant step toward lawless politics,” the editorial board added.
<https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-renews-calls-biden-administration-
165503598.html>
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