‘That’s a conflict’: Abortion pill banning judge redacted details about millions in his stock portfolio – By David Badashand (The New Civil Rights Movement) / Apr 21 2023
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk redacted critical information in his financial disclosure forms related to a single stock that is worth millions of dollars, making it the largest portion of his personal wealth. That redaction was made across several years of disclosure forms, making it difficult to determine if he has or has had any conflicts of interest.
Kacsmaryk, a Christian nationalist who ruled that the FDA must withdraw its 23-year old approval of Mifepristone, a widely-used abortion pill that is “safer than Tylenol,” is already facing allegations of not disclosing far-right radio interviews during which he discussed civil rights issues including same-sex marriage and contraception. Those interviews should have been part of his confirmation hearing disclosure.
“In his 2020 and 2021 annual disclosures, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk wrote that he held between $5 million and $25 million in ‘common stock’ of a company – a significant majority of the judge’s personal wealth,” CNN reports. “The name of the company he held stock in is redacted, despite the fact that federal law only allows redactions of information that could ‘endanger’ a judge or their family member.”
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