RT @JoePostingg
It's so cool that a district judge can stay a 20 year old FDA approval because it makes him sad. We should have a random judge in California order the Treasury to pay all medical bills.
Here's the opinion laying out the reason for the stay.
If the laws about FDA procedure, leading to the stay, need to be fixed, then let's get on it.
@volkris @CGHildebrandt One of the reasons sited in the ruling was the FDA diddly dallied in responding to plaintiffs for years, and I can just imagine the FDA specialist rolling their eyes at the sheer silliness of the complaint and shoving it down the priority list of things they have to do.🤦♂️
Maybe so, but the issue is that the FDA was legally required to respond. No matter how hard the eyerolling is, well, that's how Congress laid out the rules of the road, and failure to follow the legal rules leads to exactly this sort of situation.
Again: YES let's revisit those rules and decide if they need to be changed.
We need to highlight the legal rules at issue so we can call for statutory reform.
@CGHildebrandt
