I wouldn’t reduce it. Person still has to find a lawyer, spend their time and energy and go through all that stress to defend themselves, and time itself is money in lost earnings while they have to take time off from work and stuff like that.
The lawyer makes it sound like people are just going to send an e-mail to customer service and it’s done and dusted.
Our anti-SLAPP statute has been used to attack some claims that the Legislature probably wasn’t ever thinking of, but yes, in general it goes to claims involving the defendant’s speech and other First Amendment activities. It would probably be applicable if someone got sued for, say, aiding and abetting by telling the uterus-haver where to find the abortion clinic.
As I said somewhere, they overturned Roe without getting their hands dirty -or so they believe.
This is worth watching.
I don’t think it has been posted yet.
(ETA, ah I see it made it into the main article)
He is wise beyond his years and I hope he stays in politics.
Since it’s such a slow news day, thought I might bring up the biggest headline so far:
That’s not at all how a plea to the jurisdiction works. It’s a very simple pleading that just says, in effect “Hey this goober doesn’t allege any facts that would give rise to a cognizable, individual injury, vigilante standing isn’t a thing, and therefore this dumb case had to be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.” Then you set the plea for a non-evidentiary hearing and the judge signs your proposed order dismissing the case, because I’m fucking well right that the Legislature can’t confer a case or controversy on a plaintiff who has not suffered any personal injury.
The fallout will be even more swift the first time some right-wing politician’s daughter is discovered to have had an abortion. Sure, they’re usually financially able to fly out of state - but the truth will come out. Especially now.
Jen Psaki commits verbal murder.
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Jen Psaki is a fucking badass. pic.twitter.com/NvEi7XVq6M
— Kate 🤍🇺🇸 (@ImSpeaking13) September 2, 2021
And what, pray tell, is the client’s investment in the process, from finding counsel to any prep, any appearance, etc.
I get that from a lawyer’s point of view, it’s almost nothing.
All marks do.
Calling up a local abortion rights group and saying “Hey I got sued under this stupid new law, can you help me find a lawyer to take the case” and not much else. No courtroom appearance by the client is necessary or even appropriate, unless you just want to watch the judge sign the dismissal order with your own eyes. And these days, even that would be by Zoom.
Had Ruth Bader Ginsburg resigned when a Democratic President could reasonably nomiate a replacement, we would not be having the problem today.
They are getting these things on the books so that they can say they take effect the second that the GQP has rigged everything to take over in January 2025 and immediately begins ticking items off on the ideological wish-list, like doing away with Section 230. TX will keep this stupid law on the books and begin enforcing it as soon as their rigging and skewing of the elections to gain permanent minority-rules has removed the impediments.
Just wait. We’ll get to see some criminal sodomy prosecutions of LGBTQ people in our lifetimes.
While out on my walk today, I listened to Irish music. I needed a break from all the doom and gloom. No tunes about the famine or troubles just jigs and reels by outstanding musicians.
Not to mention that the advances made in DNA technology since the pre-Roe days will make it virtually impossible for a sperm donor to avoid detection.
Heh, I said it was just a little reduced. It remains that the Texas lege is run by the equivalent of Neanderthals being asked to undo a Gordian Knot with only their fingers and not Alexander the Great’s solution, explain what was existence before the Big Bang or praps explain what dark energy is and do it accurately.
