Judge James Ho ruled to restrict mifepristone. His wife Allyson is linked to the anti-abortion group that brought the case
You’d think the issue is that both judges are married to women whose activities are resulting in cases before their courts. But you’re wrong. It’s about non-white judges marrying goofy blond white women!
If I have to qualify it as a joke, leave me alone.
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Few people outside of legal circles have heard of the Hos, yet the couple is tied to the case before the US supreme court that will determine women’s access to mifepristone, a drug commonly used in medication abortions.
“When Americans see a case like this – so clearly concocted and motivated by special interests, and with evident connections between those interests and the judges on the case, it does tremendous damage to the reputation of the courts, and to the public trust in their ability to give all litigants an even shake,” said Alex Aronson, the executive director of the nonpartisan group Court Accountability and a former chief counsel to the Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
In an email to the Guardian, James Ho wrote that he “consulted our court’s ethics advisor prior to sitting in that case, and was advised that there was no basis for recusal.
The Hos are just one of the increasing number of power couples in the conservative movement in which the wife of a prominent official works in the background, laying the groundwork for Republican policies that their spouses will rule upon or legislate.
He has suggested that protection orders in domestic violence cases “are too often misused as a tactical device in divorce proceedings – and issued without any actual threat of danger”.
The group helped write the Mississippi law that led to the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade and ended the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion.
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I DON’T CARE if a Judge and his WIFE are working together. What we REALLY need to do is INVESTIGATE FANNI WILLIS for DATING her COWORKER!
