In the three years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell has made his name with splashy lawsuits that seek to throttle abortion rights further, specifically by limiting access to mail-order abortion pills. But Mitchell, who is the godfather of the Texas abortion “bounty hunter” law, has so far struggled to find plaintiffs who would endear themselves to the public.

Take Marcus Silva. In March 2023, Mitchell helped him sue his ex-wife’s friends, demanding $1 million in damages from each, for causing a “wrongful death” because they allegedly helped her end her pregnancy. The litigation was dropped last year after Silva’s ex-wife presented evidence that he threatened to upload videos of her to Pornhub unless she did his laundry and that he had claimed he wou

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