Opinion

The rot in the federal judiciary goes deeper than the Supreme Court

The worst federal court decisions may not have come from the Supreme Court. If you are concerned about contempt for precedent, partisan hackery and judicial hubris, take a look at what district court judges have been doing.

There was U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk’s atrocious ruling in April reversing the Food and Drug Administration’s 2-decades-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. He obliterated any notion of standing, ignored the six-year statute of limitations for challenging FDA approvals, spewed a raft of right-wing disinformation and ignored decades of medical data. The Biden administration successfully appealed issuance of a nationwide injunction.