US President Donald Trump speaks during the Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery on May 26, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia.

Two of President Donald Trump’s nominees for lifetime federal judgeships co-authored a major challenge to the abortion pill on behalf of Missouri.

Joshua Divine and Maria Lanahan represented the state in challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s regulations around mifepristone. The nearly 200-page complaint filed in October includes outlandish statements rife with anti-abortion misinformation, including that the abortion pill “starves the baby to death in the womb” and the population loss caused by mifepristone access creates “diminishment of political representation” and “loss of federal funds” for some red states.

Divine is currently the solicitor general of Missouri and director of special litigation in the state attorney general’s office. Lanahan is the state’s principal deputy solicitor general.

Trump nominated Divine and Lanahan earlier this month. Divine is Trump’s pick for the US District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri. He nominated Lanahan to a federal judgeship in the Eastern District of Missouri. The White House did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment.

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