The worst person you know just filed the worst abortion lawsuit in Texas

Anti-abortion Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell is at it again. This time, he’s representing Jerry Rodriguez, a Texas man who is suing a California doctor for allegedly mailing abortion medication to his girlfriend. 

But as usual with Mitchell, there’s much more here than just the travails of Rodriguez. 

First, the lawsuit is teeing up an attack on abortion pill manufacturers and distributors. Second, it’s an attempt to get a court to rule that the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that criminalized...