A group of Texas state House lawmakers called the Texas Freedom Caucus sent a letter to a law firm in Dallas last week threatening “consequences” over the firm’s decision to reimburse employees for the costs of out-of-state travel to obtain an abortion.
Can someone please explain to me how a child can be “unborn” in the womb and then “born” when they leave it? Further, why do these idiots get so worked up about them before they are born and couldn’t give a shit afterwards? (Pro tip: it’s a rhetorical trick. The entity is not a child until it is born; prior to that, it is a fetus. Big difference.)
Let’s see… “don’t start an argument with anyone who buys ink by the gallon” is for newspaper editors… what’s the comparable for laywers? “Don’t pick a fight with anyone who’s bodyguards were trained at Harvard Law?”
Here’s Mayes’ Facebook page. Share your thoughts.
the unproved accusation of accessory to murder seems a tad defamatory.
An excellent example of the extreme Assholiness of the TX GOPers.
I bet if it was a CEO who had this perq they wouldn’t bat an eye.
Obvious intimidation tactic.
Charges will never stick.
Let’s let a genius explain…
Now right wingers seek to impose their personal “religious” agenda on travel to have medical procedures in other states. When will businesses wake up and see they won’t be able to obtain the best employees if they remain in Gilead states? What educated young people want to live in theocratic third world level health care and anti personal freedom places like Texas, Oklahoma, etc?
“Texas Freedom Caucus”… yeah right.
Wow, the people who want to control women are taking the ball and running with it to the extremes. They got a taste, now they want the whole enchilada.
The GOP doesn’t want educated young people. How can you control them?
Yep, it’s a good thing we have the GOP to keep the government off our backs.
I wonder if Sidley will just happen to mention to some of their serious Texas clients that these idiots are causing them trouble.
Texas has made “Subservient to Corporations” its brand. Many huge ones have moved there.
Now, they are going to tell them all they will do as they are told? I don’t think so.
Jon Creuzot ain’t prosecuting nobody for anything related to anybody’s abortion. Period.
I love my county.
I believe they’re going to run afoul of the Commerce Clause and various jurisdictional statutes. It’s also interesting that these states’ rights-supporting jerks are so eager to meddle into what happens in other states. Sidley Austin is headquartered in Chicago and has offices across the globe and in many US cities. Let the payments be issued by one of the Sidley offices in a non-crazy state, and that should handicap some of their efforts to assert jurisdiction over alleged “crimes” committed out of state by removing any nexus with Texas.
The campaign ads are writing themselves. Keep (over)reaching, GOP goons.
It cannot be possible to do this in America IF we do things the American way. How can a state take its jurisdiction across a state line? Where does this end?