![]() Hear what judge who suspended abortion pill said in undisclosed radio interviewsĬNN reported Thursday that Kacsmaryk failed to disclose during his Senate confirmation process two interviews in which he discussed contraception and gay rights. The redaction is the latest example of Kacsmaryk not being fully transparent as a judge and judicial nominee, even as he has become one of the most controversial judges in the country. “The Clerk’s Office has the name of the entity, actively screens incoming cases, and I would be automatically recused from any cases involving this entity.” It has never been a party in any case in the Northern District of Texas,” Kacsmaryk wrote of the company he holds stock in. “It is a private corporation headquartered and operated outside of Texas, outside the Fifth Circuit. In a statement to CNN, Kacsmaryk said the “Administrative Office of the United States Courts approved the redaction after reviewing the relevant rules and applicable threats.” “If you have stock and you’re not saying what it’s in and it’s this much of your personal wealth, that’s a conflict you have. “The whole point of a disclosure is to explain where you have conflicts,” said Michael Lissner, the executive director of the Free Law Project, a nonprofit that has published judicial disclosures. The redacted holding accounted for at least 85% of Kacsmaryk’s total reported wealth in 2021, and potentially more. ![]() Redactions are approved by a judicial committee. It’s not clear whether that’s the same holding as the redacted stock, although Publix’s share price had significantly increased by 20 and the company is no longer listed on his more recent disclosures. On that unredacted form, Kacsmaryk reported owning about $2.9 million in stock in the Florida-based supermarket company Publix. 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.ĬNN obtained a previous financial disclosure for Kacsmaryk – which is not available online – from 2017, when he was a judicial nominee. In his 20 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. The federal judge who issued a nationwide ruling blocking the approval of a common abortion medication redacted key information on his legally mandated financial disclosures, in what legal experts described as an unusual move that conceals the bulk of his personal fortune.
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