'Worst' Trump-appointed judge set to oversee $1.8 billion dollar case that could bankrupt Planned Parenthood
One of the "worst" Trump-appointed judges is set to oversee a case involving a $1.8 billion dollar lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, according to VOX.
In the report, VOX's Ian Millhiser offered a brief overview of Kacsmaryk's history of ruling on abortion-related cases.
"A longtime opponent of abortion, birth control, and homosexuality, Kacsmaryk has handed down decisions attacking the right to birth control and attempting to nullify the federal ban on LGBTQ discrimination by health providers," Millhiser wrote. "His opinion trying to ban mifepristone faulted the FDA for failing to consider a 'study' which found that 77 percent of women who submitted anonymous blog posts to a website called 'Abortion Changes You' reported a 'negative change.'”
Millhiser also challenged Kacsmaryk's distortion of the laws.
"Kacsmaryk seems to be uniquely incapable of distinguishing what the law actually says from what he wishes that it says," Millhiser wrote. "And now he will hear an attack on Planned Parenthood that only gets more ridiculous the deeper one digs into the Doe case."
Per the news outlet, "The case, known as Doe v. Planned Parenthood, alleges that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates in Texas and Louisiana engaged in a years-long scheme to defraud those states’ Medicaid systems."
Millhiser went on to explain how the lawsuit's damages were calculated, totaling a staggering $1.8 billion.
"When you add up the money the reproductive health provider allegedly owes, plus the various fines and penalties they could be hit with, Planned Parenthood estimates that they could be ordered to pay as much as $1.8 billion, more than enough to bankrupt Planned Parenthood Federation of America — the national organization that unites Planned Parenthood’s local affiliates — and wipe out its affiliates in Texas and Louisiana," he explained.
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Millhiser argued that the lawsuit lacks merit as he explained why "no sensible judge" would entertain the case.
"No sensible judge would hold that a litigant can be bankrupted because it acted consistently with a federal court order while that order was in effect," he But this case is being heard by Matthew Kacsmaryk, who’s spent his brief time on the bench acting as a rubber stamp for virtually any conservative litigant who comes to him seeking a court order."
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