David Daleiden, the citizen journalist who heads the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), has stepped up his efforts to have San Francisco federal Judge William Orrick III disqualified from the lawsuits brought against CMP by Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation.
In a release sent out Wednesday, Daleiden said the CMP had filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that Judge Orrick’s “extrajudicial support of Planned Parenthood” means he should no longer preside.
CMP’s undercover citizen journalism reporting led to the recent news that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Planned Parenthood, and an admission of guilt in a $7.8 million settlement by two of Planned Parenthood’s business partners for selling fetal body parts against the law.
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