(Forgive me if what I’m about to ask has been raised, discussed, and dismissed, but I currently have limited time to read comments.)
Have any blue state legislators (or even US House members) threatened reciprocal legislation in the form of outlawing assault rifles, handguns, or any other weapons whose possession – like a woman’s right to choose under Roe – has been considered settled, Constitutional precedent until now?
If Texas really wants to open Pandora’s box, then isn’t ANY rightwing fetish that Republicans currently consider their “Constitutional right” – from guns, to the tax-free status of megachurches, to money as political speech – nothing more than a “civil” matter, subject to vigilante bounty hunters?
I mean, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, isn’t it?
No, when I say a test case, I am specifically referring to one of the civil lawsuits the legislature has authorized as the means of enforcing the heartbeat ban. Somebody in a reliably blue county with a reliably blue intermediate appellate court (i.e., Travis County or Dallas County) needs to go ahead and perform a post-heartbeat abortion, publicly announce it, and dare the panty-sniffers to do something about it. Then as soon as some nutjob files suit, file a plea to the jurisdiction attacking the attempt to assert vigilante standing. You’ll win that plea in any Dallas County district court, you’ll get affirmed at the Dallas Court of Appeals, and I’m confident you’ll win at SCOTX too. And move for expedited briefing and decision at all levels.
It’s this simple, the GOP stands as staunchly anti-abortion, the democrats a fuzzy pro-choice, that is well known. A big chunk of the women in Texas, that although personally pro-choice, voted GOP because of taxes, or guns, or the Mexican invasion or whatever other reason that they thought more important than keeping control of their reproductive lives, maybe it was because they took the right to abortion for granted, maybe they decided they aren’t personally affected, who knows. But the reality is that women let this happen.
Exactly, if the young women of TX don’t care why would an old man in GA care? There almost certain that the GA Taliban will follow TX’s example, but again the women in GA have the power of voting the Talibans out.
Perfect choice of words. The TFG party is committing suicide. For all the outrage on our side this is another example of the fact that the RW is losing.
