Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells CNN's Dana Bash that a Texas judge's ruling to revoke FDA approval for a key abortion pill is "an extraordinary example of judicial overreach."

 

A ruling from U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on the abortion pill should just be outright ignored, said Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on CNN.

And of course Anderson Cooper is fine with that.

She used the excuse they use for everything, which the media is fine with. Call him a Trump judge and you don’t have to abide by his decisions.

“Well, you know, I think rulings like this, and I think we’ve seen from the FDA and also from activity in Congress that some of these rulings, I think we’ve been preparing and anticipating for there being these egregious overreaches by members of the judiciary appointed by a right-wing Republican Party, whose goal for a very long time was to just pack these Courts with partisan Judges often under qualified or completely unqualified for the for their role.”

"What you just heard me ask the secretary about was something that you called on the Biden administration to do, which is just to simply ignore the court ruling. That’s a pretty stunning position, if you think about it in the abstract about the notion of just ignoring a judge’s position, so my question is when this case is resolved by the Supreme Court, should the administration follow that decision if that decision ends up banning this abortion drug?" Bash asked.

"I want to take a step back and dig into the grounds around ignoring this preliminary ruling as well. There is an extraordinary amount of precedent for this. There is a term known as agency non-acquiescence, and this has been used in for focusing, this is a first, that this is precedent setting. It is not. The Trump administration also did this very thing. But also it has happened before, the idea of consistency and governance until there is a higher court ruling is not an unprecedented thing to happen," she responded.

Ocasio-Cortez said the courts are making "a mockery of our system, a mockery of our democracy and a mockery of our law" through the mifepristone ruling.

U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas Matthew J. Kacsmaryk directed the Food and Drug Administration to halt the approval of mifepristone on Friday while a lawsuit that challenges its safety and approval makes its way through court.

Bash asked if it should apply if the Supreme Court were to uphold the Texas judge's decision.

"I think one of the things that I think one of the things that we need to examine is the grounds of that ruling. But I do not believe that the courts have the authority to, have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted, and I do believe that it creates a crisis," Ocasio-Cortez added.

She said if the Supreme Court were to uphold the Texas judge's decision, it would essentially create a "national abortion ban."

Ocasio-Cortez previously told CNN that the Biden administration should ignore the ruling.

"I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling," she said on CNN.

She said "deeply partisan" judges have "engaged in unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts," calling the abortion pill ruling "unfounded."