Daleiden, CMP Call for Recusal of Gag-Ordering Judge With Planned Parenthood Ties
David Daleiden and the Center Medical Progress (CMP) announced a new motion Wednesday, asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to compel the recusal of Judge William Orrick from the lawsuit between Daleiden/CMP and Planned Parenthood and accusing Orrick of bias in favor of the abortion advocacy organization.
According to charges levied in the petition, Orrick has “an ongoing and longstanding professional relationship with one of the named Plaintiffs,” namely Planned Parenthood.
Specifically, the petition claims, Orrick is a founder and longtime officer of the Good Samaritan Family Resource Center (GSFRC), a San Francisco-based organization that provides services to local families and houses a Planned Parenthood facility within its complex. The Planned Parenthood was incorporated into GSFRC’s services while Orrick served as the organization’s secretary and counsel.
This conflict of interest is further exacerbated because Orrick’s image was used in inflammatory Facebook postings attacking CMP and defending Planned Parenthood which Orrick’s own wife “liked,” an action that CMP contends makes the post partially attributable to the liker.
The posts, one in 2015 and one in 2016, attacked CMP as “a sham organization run by extremists,” alleging that the published undercover videos of the sale of fetal tissue were “heavily edited,” and suggested that the whole endeavor amounted to domestic terrorism. (Read more from “Daleiden, CMP Call for Recusal of Gag-Ordering Judge With Planned Parenthood Ties” HERE)
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