The DeSantis administration also announced a $328,000 fine against the group.
No one is more committed to big government than Ron DeSantis.
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Wait’ll they go after the Third Amendment.
Made ya look : - )
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I wonder if Ron knows with just a little patch of mustache he could be the quintessential Nazi?
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State weaponized denial of the real, profound consequences of their policies…
weaponized willful ignorance…reminds me of this quote:
“Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming [government mismanagement] disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.”
from The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
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Yes, it’s better that states give women the death sentence.
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That idiot should have his medical license taken away from him.
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The dog caught the car, then the driver threw it into reverse and gunned it.
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Wilson, the former Florida Health Department general counsel, . . . argued that the advertisement in question . . . was disseminating information that is “categorically false” and “dangerous”
That standard would eliminate most GOP political ads and all Trump rallies. They continue unabated because most lies are protected by the 1st Amendment.
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OT, but I noticed that TFG had a very specific legal citation in one of his appearances. That he could use The Aliens Act of 1798 to deport undocumented folks. I wonder who is filling his head here, since there is no way Trump knows this law on his own. Also, this is the law that also made it a crime to criticize the government. Is it possible that, like Comstock, this is still somehow on the books?
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and then the rooster crowed?
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In 2022, the Rethugs snuck a proposition onto the ballot requiring a 60% threshold to approve any ballot measure requiring new taxes - it passed with 50.72% of the vote. My brain tells me that if you want to require 60% of the vote to pass something, that measure itself should require at least a 60% majority. But this is how the Rethugs keep screwing us.
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Definitely watch the clip. After the gentleman asked the question and tRump answers you can see the guy trying not to smile because he sort of knew he’d get a bullshit non answer and tRump is a fucking idiot.
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Counterpoint, he really is that stupid.
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It’s gotta suck so bad to be a lawyer these days. Your whole world view lies in pieces on the ground like sweet dreams and flying machines.
Finally…a true First Amendment case. So sick of the right misusing the term by applying it to companies, etc. hear that Elon?
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Jacky Rosen’s Nevada Senate race deserves some further explication. Even the conservative Real Clear Politics has her beating Brown by 5.5 % (he wishes). Cook has her at +13%. All politics are local, but it sure seems that Dems do better when they take it to their opponent, especially unlikeable opponents. Given that low-population state Senate seats are more affordable, why hasn’t more money gone to the Katrina Christiansen campaign? If Trump underperforms in ND, there will be a lot of Dem recrimination that the race didn’t have at least a Rosen-level organization. For most Americans, the closest thing to previewing hell would be having to sit in a middle seat between Ted Cruz and Kevin Cramer on a cross-country flight.
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The citizen initiative was one of the reforms pushed in the early XX Century by the progressives. Not all states have it (as you noted, and are undoubtedly well aware), and it takes different forms where it does exist.
Here in Ohio, we can actually overrule the state legislature (that is, repealing a specific statute without a constitutional amendment via a petition/initiative process. I’m not completely clear on the process, because the last time it happened Kasich was governor and involved a public union-busting bill. (My forgettery is saying it was SB 3 5, but I wouldn’t rely on that. ETA: I checked, and it was SB 5.) My wife was living here (and a member of AAUP, the faculty union), but I was still in La Tierra Encantada and was following it from afar.
That strikes me as a handy thing to have.
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Generally, the burden of proof [when there is an explicit one] is satisfied by having reported the rape to police. By me, even that burden is too much, especially given that many rapes go unreported from fear, the unlikelihood of successful prosecution, and the like. But I don’t know of any state allowing such an exception, but demanding a formal proceeding and judgment on the matter. I could be wrong, of course.
Therein lies the rub—the states with these exceptions have no formal mechanism in place, so doctors and patients would still be too afraid to act for fear of legal ramifications. You know some constitutional sheriff or in Texas some random stranger is going to go after them because they won’t believe the woman.
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