Trump-appointed judge blasted over his 'remarkably childish' attack on law professor [View all]
University of Texas School of Law Steve Vladeck fired back at a controversial Trump-appointed judge on Wednesday for personally attacking him in a recent court decision.
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The judge Vladeck is referring to is Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is considering a case on whether to issue a nationwide ban on the most common form of abortion medication "in a lawsuit that couldve been brought anywhere in the country" -- but was brought to Amarillo specifically so Kacsmaryk -- whose anti-abortion views are well known -- would hear it.
"If all Judge Kacsmaryk did in his Tuesday ruling was deny the DOJs motion to change venue in the ESG case, it wouldnt be much of a story," Vladeck writes. "But in the course of rejecting the DOJs arguments, Kacsmaryk decided to come after meeven though Im not involved in that case in any way."
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"Its hard to say what exactly Kacsmaryk intended to convey by name-checking the man whose chair I have the honor of holding; no doubt it was meant as another fire-emoji-level burn of me personally," he writes. "But its a remarkably childish and churlish shot for a sitting federal judge to take at a non-party for the sin of amassing accurate data in support of a position he doesnt like."
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