It’s easy to conflate reasonability with popularity. President Donald Trump benefits from this notion, especially among conservatives, and more especially among pro-lifers.

That becomes obvious in abortion pill disputes, wherein most people end up approving of it and the media continue to lie about its safety. The shock factor of these results seems never to diminish. Newly, the Trump administration requested that a federal judge dismiss a lawsuit from Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri aimed at restricting access to mifepristone. Department of Justice attorneys reportedly argued that the states’ claims “have no connection to the Northern District of Texas,” where the original lawsuit is pending, and so “cannot proceed in this Court.”