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   Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has doubled down on   
   calls for the Biden administration to defy federal courts, including the   
   nation’s highest, which she believes to be “a highly politicized entity   
   that is rapidly delegitimizing.”   
      
   Ocasio-Cortez argued earlier this month that the Biden administration   
   should ignore Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling suspending approval of   
   mifepristone, which is used in a regimen that constitutes the most common   
   method of procuring an abortion in the United States. The Department of   
   Justice appealed the ruling to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and then   
   the Supreme Court. On Friday, the high court stayed Kacsmaryk’s ruling in   
   full.   
      
   Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have denied the   
   applications for stays, with Alito writing that the applicants “have not   
   shown that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the interim.” One   
   line in Alito’s dissent drew a reaction from Ocasio-Cortez — namely, his   
   point that “the Government has not dispelled legitimate doubts that it   
   would even obey an unfavorable order in these cases, much less that it   
   would choose to take enforcement actions to which it has strong   
   objections.”   
      
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   In response, Ocasio-Cortez speculated on Twitter that she and others who   
   had supported defying federal courts contributed to the stay of   
   mifepristone’s suspension.   
      
      
   “The court is a political entity currently engaged in overreach and abuse   
   of power. In our system of checks and balances, SCOTUS’s reckless behavior   
   warrants a check from the leg + executive branches. This is not   
   unprecedented, it’s how our system is designed to avert tyranny,” Ocasio-   
   Cortez continued.   
      
   The representative’s comments on Friday follow an interview she gave to   
   Anderson Cooper on CNN in which she argued much the same.   
      
   “It is the justices themselves through the deeply partisan and unfounded   
   nature of these rulings that are undermining their own enforcement…It is   
   up to the Biden administration to choose whether or not to enforce such a   
   ruling,” she said.   
      
      
   “We are seeing a power grab over our courts in which the laws passed by   
   Congress and the rules and policies passed by the executive branch now are   
   going to require unanimous consent from 650 district court judges, many of   
   which are appointed with even the American Bar Association saying they’re   
   completely unfit for the role,” Ocasio-Cortez added.   
      
   The representative is not the only Democratic member of Congress that has   
   openly called for the federal courts to be ignored by the executive   
   branch. Senator Ron Wyden (D., Or.) said in a statement there was no way   
   Kacsmaryk’s order has a basis in the law.   
      
   “It is instead rooted in conservatives’ dangerous and undemocratic   
   takeover of our country’s institutions. No matter what happens in seven   
   days, I believe the Food and Drug Administration has the authority to   
   ignore this ruling, which is why I’m again calling on President Biden and   
   the FDA to do just that,” Wyden wrote.   
      
   These calls drew condemnation from many concerned with the rule of law.   
   Though the Wall Street Journal editorial board harbored doubts about   
   Kacsmaryk’s ruling, they thought the remarks of Wyden and Ocasio-Cortez   
   were beyond the pale.   
      
   “This is dangerous for the rule of law, and Democrats shouldn’t think   
   they’ll be the only politicians who pick up the Wyden Nullification   
   Doctrine. Southern Democrats called for ‘massive resistance’ to legal   
   orders in the 1950s after the Supreme Court’s school desegregation ruling   
   in Brown v. Board of Education. Is that now the Wyden-AOC model?,” the   
   editorial board wrote.   
      
   “There’s a risk the Administration will cave under progressive pressure if   
   the legal rulings don’t go its way. If it does, the U.S. will take another   
   giant step toward lawless politics,” the editorial board added.   
      
      
      
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