MRL Opposes Appointment of Ronnie White to the Federal Bench

Missouri Right to Life has released an open letter to Senators Blunt and McCaskill opposing the nomination of Ronnie White to the federal bench. Due to his actions in the Missouri House in 1992 where Representative White, as Chairman of the Missouri House Committee on Civil and Criminal Law, showed that he was willing to break his own word in order to prevent the overwhelmingly pro-life citizens of Missouri their voice in attempting to protect unborn children.

      As a judge of the Missouri Supreme Court, Ronnie White further exhibited his bias when he made the fourth vote of a 4-3 decision against ordering Planned Parenthood organizations to return hundreds of thousands of dollars in Missouri tax money that had been twice held to have been granted in violation of Missouri law. Shipley v. Cates, 200 S.W.3d 529 (Mo. banc 2006).

      As a legislator and committee chair, Ronnie White was not willing to abide by his own commitments to the Governor and to a fellow legislator on an issue of overriding importance to the people of Missouri. As a state Supreme Court judge, he was not willing to make Planned Parenthood return Missouri taxpayers' money that it had received in violation of the duly-enacted law enacted by the Legislature.

      You can see the open letter from Missouri Right to Life to Senators Roy Blunt and Claire McCaskill here.