The wife of James Ho, one of the circuit judges who banned mifepristone last year, took multiple payments from the group that brought it to court.

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.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    and what do you do? Oh you’re a judge? I’m so sorry, how embarrassing for you. Still, could be worse, you could be a Supreme Court Justice