This is States’ Rights?

~Because the judge is a medical expert, who understands and believes in science.~   https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/07/texas-abortion-drugs-fda-ruling/ “This is the first time a judge has unilaterally, against the FDA’s objections, removed a drug from the market,” said Greer Donley, a University of Pittsburgh law professor who studies FDA law. “A judge who has … no scientific expertise, overruling the agency that has a ton of scientific expertise.” https://www.opb.org/article/2023/04/08/abortion-pill-order-latest-contentious-ruling-by-texas-judge/ “…a former attorney for a religious liberty legal group with a long history pushing conservative causes.” “Kacsmaryk, a former federal prosecutor and lawyer for the conservative First Liberty Institute, was confirmed in 2019 over fierce opposition by Democrats over his record opposing LGBTQ rights.” “He’s the sole district court judge in Amarillo — a city in the Texas panhandle — ensuring that all cases filed there land in front of him. And since taking the bench, he has ruled against the Biden administration on several other issues, including immigration and LGBTQ protections.” “…the number of conservative lawsuits filed in Amarillo has spawned accusations of “judge shopping” or that right-wing plaintiffs are seeking out Kacsmaryk because they know they’ll get a sympathetic ear.” “Legal experts warned of questionable arguments and factual inaccuracies in the suit for months, but Kacsmaryk essentially agreed with all the plaintiffs’ major points, including their contention the FDA didn’t adequately review mifepristone’s safety. Medical groups, by contrast, point out mifepristone has been used by millions of women over the past 23 years, and complications occur at a lower rate than with… Read more »

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-jesus-he-gets-us-super-bowl-ads-20230213-p4guki37ord5tegs3fpmmm5nc4-story.html And, the case was brought to Amarillo by the Alliance Defending Freedom (that’s full-on New Speak). “The Jesus-focused “He Gets Us” ads that aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII were funded in part by groups that donated sizable sums to anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion efforts…” “The ad campaign promoting Christianity is part of the Servant Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provided more than $50 million to the conservative Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom from 2018 to 2020…” “Alliance Defending Freedom is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “hate group” that’s spread lies about the LGBTQ community and supported laws against LGBTQ rights…” https://www.cjonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/02/10/ignore-strawman-arguments-adf-is-an-anti-lgbtq-hate-group/69882330007/ “We characterize anti-LGBTQ hate groups as those that demonize LGBTQ people and spread false and dangerous rhetoric that portrays LGBTQ people as threats to children, society and public health. Notably, we strongly respect diverse religious beliefs. We would not, for example, list an organization that simply holds the view that being LGBTQ is unbiblical or opposes marriage equality as an anti-LGBTQ hate group.” “In fact, ADF precisely fits the bill because, as SPLC has extensively documented, the group: • Supported the recriminalization of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. (Mr. Lorence wrote a supportive brief to this end) and criminalization of them abroad. .Defended state-sanctioned sterilization of transgender people abroad who simply want to update their government-issued identification documents. • Crafted and advocated legislation that restricts and even criminalizes gender-affirming health care. • Argued that LGBTQ people are more likely to be pedophiles. • Trades… Read more »

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/08/us/christianity-decline-easter-blake-cec/index.html “The future of American Christianity is neither white evangelicalism nor white progressivism,” Warren wrote. “The future of American Christianity now appears to be a multiethnic community that is largely led by immigrants of the children of immigrants.” “Church leaders in the US also have fretted about the rise of “nones.” These are people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular” when asked their religious identity.” “The interest of the nones will soon outweigh those of the religious right in just a matter of years,” Wray says. “Nones are going to vote as a bloc and they’re going to be pretty powerful. White evangelicals will eventually be eclipsed by the unaffiliated.” “The world’s largest megachurch, for example, is not in the US. It’s in South Korea. The Yoido Full Gospel Church has a weekly attendance of about 600,000 members…the church is not perceived in South Korea as an instrument of oppression, but one of liberation. When South Korea was colonized by the Japanese in the early 20th century, the church aligned with Koreans to protest. Christianity was looked at not as a religion of empire and of the colonizers, but as the religion of the anti-colonial movement and of pro-democracy…” “This migration is known as the “Browning of America,” a phrase describing a demographic shift that is expected to make White people the minority in the US by 2045. Christianity could rebound in America if White Christians embrace this one change…” “The influx of Black and brown… Read more »

I thought Bragg was bringing state crimes, not fed.