(PartiallyPolitics.com) – On Monday a federal judge scheduled a hearing regarding the use of abortion pills after a coalition of media organizations called on him to provide more transparency in the Texas case regarding the pills.
Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, announced that a public hearing, in this case, would be held on Wednesday. The announcement came after a lawyer representing the media coalition, which is made up of NBCUniversal News Group and The Washington Post, sent a letter to the judge stating that the decision to not schedule a public and inform the public ahead of time was unconstitutional.
The lawyer, Peter B. Steffensen of the Southern Methodist University’s First Amendment Clinic, cited a report that had been published by The Washington Post in which Kacsmaryk had told the attorneys that he would cite a report over the weekend by The Washington Post that said Kacsmaryk told attorneys in the case that the hearing would not be posted until Tuesday night.
Steffensen in the letter claimed that the court’s decision in delaying the notice was going to “limit the ability of members of the public, including the press, to attend Wednesday’s hearing” as he wrote this attempt was “unconstitutional.” He further noted that this particular case was incredibly interesting to the public and that by delaying the announcement people in both the plaintiffs’ and defendants’ positions would be hurt.
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