Judge James Ho made headlines for ruling that abortions cause “aesthetic injury” to doctors. Ho’s wife regularly accepts speaking fees from the conservative group that led the mifepristone case before his court. Story at @levernews.bsky.social
The conservative group arguing the abortion pill case has made frequent payments to the spouse of James Ho, who just helped threaten access to the medicine.
Conservative Supreme Court architect Leonard Leo bought a Catholic church near his new Maine summer home, where his neighbors regularly protest his political crusade. https://www.levernews.com/the-church-of-leonard-leo/
The Supreme Court’s dark-money operative bought a church near his tony summer home, where neighbors are protesting his political crusade.
Biden and Congress directed states to start kicking people off Medicaid for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The result has been a complete disaster: 73% of those losing coverage were terminated for procedural reasons. https://www.levernews.com/the-unfolding-medicaid-disaster/
Now that Biden and Congress have ended pandemic protections, nearly a million have lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons so far — and many more will.
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