Chron Article RatingMatthew Kacsmaryk: The Trump-appointed judge overseeing the blockbuster medication abortion lawsuit
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| "In a brief submitted to the court by Kacsmaryk and others on behalf of First Liberty and a host of other religious groups, they urged justices to rule that the First Amendment's free speech protections protects religious dissenters who disagree with state-recognized same-sex marriage." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Among the Supreme Court disputes Kacsmaryk weighed in on was the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The Equality Act seeks to weaponize Obergefell, moving with lightning speed from a contentious five-to-four victory on same-sex marriage to a nationwide rule that 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' are privileged classes that give no quarter to Americans who continue to believe and seek to exercise their milleia-old religious belief that marriage and sexual relations are reserved to the union of one man and one woman, he wrote." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In recent comments to The Washington Post, Kacsmaryk's sister, Jeifer Griffith, detailed her brother's long history of being anti-abortion and how she believes fate brought the abortion case before him." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, was confirmed by a 52-46 Senate vote in 2019." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In December, Kacsmaryk put on hold the Biden administration's most recent attempt to end the so-called Remain in Mexico program." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Kacsmaryk is also a longtime member of the conservative legal group the Federalist Society and has campaigned for Texas GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, as well as Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, according to answers he submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Kacsmaryk is also a longtime member of the conservative legal group the Federalist Society and has campaigned for Texas GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, as well as Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, according to answers he submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Kacsmaryk is also a longtime member of the conservative legal group the Federalist Society and has campaigned for Texas GOP Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, as well as Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, according to answers he submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "But in his few short years as a judge, he has emerged as the chief antagonist of the Biden administration, including with rulings against the administration's moves to expand LGBTQ protections, Biden's immigration agenda and policies that ensure minors' access to birth control without their parents' permission." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But in his few short years as a judge, he has emerged as the chief antagonist of the Biden administration, including with rulings against the administration's moves to expand LGBTQ protections, Biden's immigration agenda and policies that ensure minors' access to birth control without their parents' permission." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Since Kacsmaryk took the bench in 2019, he's helped make Texas a legal graveyard for policies of President Joe Biden's administration, largely due to the fact that Texas' rules for how federal cases are assigned in the state have allowed conservatives to file there strategically, almost guaranteeing their complaints will be before sympathetic judges." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "A month earlier, Kacsmaryk blocked the Biden administration from enforcing new rules that sought to protect transgender Americans from discrimination in health care." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
50% : In a brief submitted to the court by Kacsmaryk and others on behalf of First Liberty and a host of other religious groups, they urged justices to rule that the First Amendment's free speech protections "protects religious dissenters who disagree with state-recognized same-sex marriage."47% : Among the Supreme Court disputes Kacsmaryk weighed in on was the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
45% :"The Equality Act seeks to weaponize Obergefell, moving with lightning speed from a contentious five-to-four victory on same-sex marriage to a nationwide rule that 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' are privileged classes that give no quarter to Americans who continue to believe and seek to exercise their millennia-old religious belief that marriage and sexual relations are reserved to the union of one man and one woman," he wrote.
36% : In recent comments to The Washington Post, Kacsmaryk's sister, Jennifer Griffith, detailed her brother's long history of being anti-abortion and how she believes fate brought the abortion case before him.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.