John Cornyn declares himself "All in" on the mifepristone ban
United States Senator for Texas, posting on his own account on X
“All in”
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Source for Bill Cassidy's response as chairman of the committee holding the bill, John Cornyn's "All in" post on X, Chuck Schumer's reaction, and Alexis McGill Johnson's statement. Also records that spokespeople for Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski did not respond to questions about the bill, and that the two were the only Republican senators who declined to sign a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services calling for a mifepristone crackdown.
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Cornyn was in a difficult Republican primary in Texas when the bill was introduced. He was the first of seven Republicans to cosponsor it.
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Of the seven eventual Republican cosponsors, Cornyn is the only one to have made an attributed public statement about the bill.
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Case context: Should Congress ban the abortion pill, mifepristone, as Josh Hawley has proposed?
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Why this label?
The case's fixed reference point is Hawley's proposition that Congress should ban mifepristone by revoking its federal approval. Cornyn's two words are brief but unambiguous in their context: they were posted in direct response to the bill's introduction and accompanied by his cosponsorship the same day. The closest competing label is unclear, given the brevity of the post. That loses because the target and direction are fixed by the surrounding facts, and the accompanying legislative act removes any doubt about which position the words express.
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