Dana El-Kurd
speaker
4,891 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
Dana El-Kurd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Courts require that parties have what judges call standing in order to file a lawsuit.
That means, for instance, that one party has been in some way directly injured by the other party.
President Joe Biden's Food and Drug Administration questioned how the doctors in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine had in any way been directly harmed because women have access to abortion medications.
Kaczmarek found a fanciful way to grant the alliance a right to sue.
He claimed that treating the rare complications from Mifepristone overwhelmed hospitals and placed, quote, enormous pressure and stress on the doctors during emergencies and complications.
After granting the alliance standing, Kaczmarek issued a preliminary injunction suspending the FDA's approval of the drug.
The decision would go into effect in seven days in order to give the federal government a chance to file an appeal.
In his decision, Kaczmarek cited two studies that claimed the drug was harmful, but both had been retracted by a medical journal.
In effect, Kaczmarek had banned Mifepristone nationwide.
The United States Justice Department and Danco Laboratories, Mifepristone's manufacturer, appealed, and the case went to the Fifth Circuit.
Judicial chaos surrounding the status of Mifepristone reigned within hours as ABC7 in Los Angeles reported.
But another federal judge in Washington state then issuing a contradictory ruling, setting up another major battle over a woman's right to choose.
Eyewitness News reporter Amy Powell joining us live in studio with more tonight.
Amy.
Michelle, this is causing a lot of concern.
The reversal of Roe versus Wade by the Supreme Court was supposed to mean that abortion laws would be left up to individual states.
The mifepristone case went to the Fifth Circuit, where Judge Ho would write an opinion critics characterized as disturbing, baffling, and bizarre.
We'll talk about what happened in the Mifepristone case and how Judge Ho, an immigrant himself, has suggested that the children of migrants might not be eligible for birthright citizenship because the United States is, in his words, being invaded.
But first, we'll hear some hopefully not too bizarre messages from our sponsors.
When the Fifth Circuit heard the appeal of Kaczmarek's ruling, Ho didn't recuse himself from the case, even though his wife, Allison, a lawyer, has repeatedly appeared at events sponsored by the Alliance Defending Freedom, one of the litigants, and even received speaking fees from the organization.
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