Socialist Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York calls for President Joe Biden to ignore the ruling of a Texas judge against abortion pills. Ocasio-Cortez expresses her opinion during an interview with Anderson Cooper on his CNN show, following Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision that the FDA had incorrectly approved an abortion pill more than two decades ago.
“Some of these rulings, I think we’ve been preparing and anticipating for their being these egregious overreaches, by members of the judiciary, appointed by a right-wing Republican party, uh, whose goal for a very long time was just to pack these courts with partisan judges, often, under-qualified, or completely unqualified for their role,” AOC said.
“And so, there has been thought, I believe, given to this, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has already issued statements, uh, for example, advising what we should do in a situation like this, which I concur,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.
“I believe that the Biden administration should ignore, uh, this ruling,” she stammered, “which is, I believe.”
“I think that, you know, the courts have the legitimacy, and they rely on the legitimacy of their rulings,” she explained. “And what they are currently doing is engaged in an unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts.”
Cooper challenged her demand, warning that setting a precedent for the executive branch to ignore judicial rulings would be unwise. Ocasio-Cortez responded by asserting that many judges appointed by former President Donald Trump were unqualified for their positions.
She then proceeded to compare the abortion pill to Claritin, an antihistamine, or Aspirin, a pain medication, and brought up a historical anomaly from a hundred years ago when President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to ignore a ruling from the Supreme Court. Notably, she did not mention that even Democrats condemned Roosevelt for his attempt to upend government order, and he eventually complied.
“Ocasio-Cortez’s comments are even more mystifying given that Kacsmaryk’s ruling allows the government seven days to file an appeal and fight the ban from going into place until a higher court can decide on the matter,” the article stated.
