Pictured above is Chief Justice John Roberts amid the federal courts' ongoing attempts to make it harder to file lawsuits in front of judges deemed as having a favorable point of view. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Interest groups of all kinds have long attempted to file lawsuits before judges they see as friendly to their causes. But the practice got more attention after an unprecedented ruling halting approval of abortion medication. That case was filed in Amarillo, Texas, where it was all but certain to go before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who is a former attorney for a religious liberty legal group with a long history pushing conservative causes.
The Supreme Court put the abortion medication ruling on hold, and is hearing arguments on it later this month.
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The new policy announced by the U.S. Judicial Conference after its biennial meeting would not apply to cases seeking only local action. It was adopted not in response to any one case but rather a "plethora of national and statewide injunctions," said Judge Jeff Sutton, chief judge of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and chair of the Judicial Conference’s executive committee.
"We get the idea of having local cases resolved locally, but when a case is a declaratory judgment action or national injunction, obviously the stakes of the case go beyond that small town," he said.
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