民主党拿下五州总检察长 多起未决大案走向生变：米非司酮、移民执法与环保诉讼在列
据路透社11月8日报道，民主党在11月3日中期选举中拿下佐治亚州、艾奥瓦州、俄亥俄州、堪萨斯州与德克萨斯州五个州的总检察长职位。这批职位掌握着各州在联邦法院打官司的方向，一批由卸任共和党总检察长主导的未决诉讼，走向可能因此改变。
堕胎药是头一桩。德克萨斯州是起诉美国食品药品监管局 FDA、要求推翻其对堕胎药米非司酮批准的原告州之一；若德州新任总检察长 Nathan Johnson 撤诉，该案将只剩佛罗里达州一方原告。堪萨斯州当选总检察长 Chris Mann 也可能让堪萨斯退出另一桩挑战米非司酮获取规定的诉讼，届时原告只剩密苏里州与爱达荷州。Johnson 对路透社表示，他将逐一评估前任 Ken Paxton 办公室提起的诉讼再决定是否继续支持：「一切都会被审查。」德州还可能不再为该州接近全面禁止堕胎的法律辩护，也可能退出至少三桩执行未成年人性别肯定治疗禁令的案件。佐治亚州当选总检察长 Tanya Miller 的上任，则可能影响该州为六周堕胎禁令 HB 481 辩护的立场。
药企诉讼也在名单上。德州起诉 Kenvue、指控其隐瞒孕期服用泰诺与自闭症关联的案件，以及 Paxton 2023年起诉辉瑞新冠疫苗效力表述、堪萨斯州前总检察长 Kris Kobach 对辉瑞的同类诉讼，都可能被新任总检察长重新审视。Kenvue 已否认有不当行为，辉瑞此前称其表述准确、有科学依据。
环保与移民两条线同样受影响。德克萨斯等13个共和党主政州起诉贝莱德等大型资产管理公司、指控其气候行动违反反垄断法的案件中，堪萨斯州是原告之一，贝莱德已否认指控，同案的 Vanguard 已在今年2月以2,950万美元和解。移民方面，德州新任总检察长可能放弃为 SB4 法案辩护，该法允许州执法人员逮捕并起诉涉嫌非法越境者；艾奥瓦州当选总检察长 Nate Willems 也可能不再为该州同类法律辩护。此外，亚特兰大联邦法官 Steven Jones 上周四已以总检察长办公室「即将换届」为由，暂停了佐治亚州国会选区地图诉讼的进一步程序；德州在公立学校展示十诫法律、民主党筹款平台 ActBlue 等案件上的立场，也可能随新任总检察长上任而调整。
（来源：路透社）
Democratic Wins in Five State AG Races Could Reshape Pending Lawsuits on Abortion Drugs, Immigration and Climate
Democrats will take over the attorney general offices of Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Kansas and Texas following the November 3 midterm elections, a shift that could change the course of a string of pending lawsuits championed by outgoing Republican attorneys general, Reuters reported on November 8.
Abortion litigation comes first. Texas is among the states suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its approval of the abortion drug mifepristone; if Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson withdraws, Florida would remain as a plaintiff. Kansas Attorney General-elect Chris Mann could withdraw his state from a separate challenge to rules that expanded access to mifepristone, leaving Missouri and Idaho as plaintiffs. Johnson told Reuters he will assess the pending lawsuits brought by Ken Paxton's office: "Everything will be examined." Texas could also decline to defend its near-total abortion ban and back away from at least three cases enforcing a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. In Georgia, Attorney General-elect Tanya Miller's win could affect the state's defense of HB 481, its six-week abortion ban.
Pharmaceutical cases are also in play, including Texas's suit against Kenvue over alleged links between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism, which Kenvue has denied, and suits by Paxton and Kansas's Kris Kobach accusing Pfizer of misrepresenting its COVID-19 vaccine, which Pfizer has said were accurate and science-based.
Environmental and immigration cases could shift as well. Kansas is among the plaintiffs in Texas's antitrust suit against BlackRock and other asset managers over climate activism; BlackRock has denied wrongdoing and Vanguard settled its claims for $29.5 million in February. Texas's new attorney general could drop the state's defense of SB4, which lets state authorities arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border, and Iowa Attorney General-elect Nate Willems could decline to defend a similar Iowa law. A federal judge in Atlanta paused Georgia's congressional-map litigation on Thursday, citing the impending change in the attorney general's office, and Texas's positions in the Ten Commandments classroom-display case and the ActBlue fundraising-platform suit could also be revisited.
(Source: Reuters)
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