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In an attempt to slide under the radar in a Friday filing before a long weekend, Republican Attorneys General in Kansas, Missouri, and Idaho amended a lawsuit against the FDA seeking to roll back access to the widely-used abortion pill mifepristone. This new filing threatens abortion access not only in states where it’s currently restricted but across the nation. Through this new attack, the AGs appear to be invoking the Comstock Act, a move plucked from Project 2025’s playbook, to revive the antiquated law that could eliminate access to medication abortion by mail, effectuating a backdoor national abortion ban. 

This case originally arrived at the Supreme Court under dubious circumstances, brought by a sham group of activists with questionable standing, who judge-shopped this case to one of the most extreme, anti-abortion District Court judges in the United States. Despite Leonard Leo and the activist legal group Alliance Defending Freedom’s egregious judge-shopping tactics, SCOTUS blocked the state from joining the lawsuit and held that the original plaintiffs lacked standing. Now, Leo’s anti-abortion attack efforts are resorting to the Leo and RAGA-backed AGs–including new RAGA chairman Kris Kobach–to try again.

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This latest filing is yet another display of the far-right legal movement’s strategic manipulation of the judiciary– in collusion with their ideological allies in Northern Texas, the Fifth Circuit, and the Supreme Court. These cases are no more than a coordinated right-wing effort to take away Americans’ rights, including the right to abortion. Even without enacting Project 2025, the far-right has no limit on what they’re willing to do to limit Americans’ freedoms and abuse our judicial system.”

Accountable.US President Caroline Ciccone

Pulling directly from Project 2025’s extreme playbook, this lawsuit threatens abortion access and other fundamental reproductive rights. These Republican AGs have shown that far-right extremists do not intend to wait to enact its Project 2025 plans for the most restrictive anti-abortion agenda to date.

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