Taxpayers have spent more than $190,000 on Attorney General Todd Rokita's legal fights involving a doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim.
INDIANAPOLIS — Attorney General Todd Rokita has paid more than $190,000 in legal fees to a Washington D.C.-based law firm for legal work related to his investigation into an IU Health doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old girl, records show.
Page 1 of Schaerr Bernard Case_w Contributed to DocumentCloud by RTV6 • View document or read text A contract extension filed in August authorizes Rokita's office to pay Schaerr Jaffe an amount"not to exceed $1.1 million" for services associated with a string of legal work involving Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the IU Health doctor who drew national attention shortly after Roe v. Wade fell.
Rokita's comments drew the ire of the the Indiana Supreme Court's Disciplinary Commission. The ethics body on Monday filed charges against Rokita's law license. "Really the question you need to think about — at least this makes me think about as a taxpayer, not even as a legal professional — is they're spending all this state money just to have one medical professional be reprimanded," said Margaret Tarkington, a professor at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law.
Most of the money paid went to legal fees that range from $285- to $550-an hour. The largest bill covered work performed in November and December 2022 and totaled more than $52,000.
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