The easiest and quickest solution would be for the women of Texas to actually vote, and to stop voting for Republicans. Will they? Maybe, maybe not.
The majority of all voters are women, yet Texas has one of the poorest voter participation rates in the US, usually at the very bottom, and 40%-45% of women there reliably vote GOP. Clearly millions of women agree with these assaults on Roe. It may be time to admit this isn’t the problem we’re led to believe it is when millions continue to actively vote for it, or passively approve by staying home.
Elections have serious consequences. None of this has been a secret for the last forty years.
Pashtunwali predates Islam by many hundreds of years and it really is deep in the brain of any Afghan. Pashtun or not. Some clans there hate it but some engage in it deeply. It does color most everything there I found.
It’s more then just $10,000, which is what makes this law so insidious. It allows unlimited numbers of lawsuits by separate parties for a single violation, each of which is a $10k penalty if you loose. If you win the b*stards that sue you don’t have to pay your legal fee’s. And the statue of limitations is 4 years.
Who even knows what’s constitutional when it comes to abortion any more? That’s why I’m focused on the vigilante standing problem, which plainly isn’t constitutional under the state constitution.
Now, why would that bother any of the Goobers since they’ve already trampled on the Constitution. Roe v Wade is not dead yet. It probably will die shortly but it’s not dead yet.
I’m thinking this would be a good new source of income for Indian Reservations. Like gambling casinos; they only have to obey federal law.
If SCOTX approves vigilante standing, nothing will prevent the Dems from deploying it in ways that the current members of SCOTX will not like at all, which is why they are highly likely to kill it. I have little doubt they’d find a straightforward heartbeat bill to be fine, but the civil enforcement procedure the Lege is adopting here is deeply anti-conservative.
The offense will live on probably forever. Five appointed people, not elected by anyone and all confirmed by righties in the senate, are determining the reproductive rights of women of childbearing age forever. Women’s loss of the right to choose to bear a child will live on forever. And keep in mind. An unwanted child is likely to be a neglected, even abused child.
I think Sotomayor made it pretty clear: states cannot deputize citizens to sue other citizens for exercising their constitutional rights and pretend that the plaintiffs are not state actors. That person suing is violating the civil rights of the person they are suing. The Supremacy Clause says that a state cannot do that. The entire statutory regime is preempted by the fact that it’s a constitutional right. Sure, I certainly haven’t articulated it all in blazing clarity because I have shit to do between posts LOL, but that’s all at play here.
And the pre-emption should be our key to victory here. EMINENT DOMAIN, POCKETS OF FEDERAL LAND, CLINICS ON THE FEDERAL LAND AND VOILA…THE STATE CAN’T DO JACK FUCKING SHIT.
