If it’s illegal to fund travel to get an abortion, then businesses won’t be able to pay their female employees anymore. Who knows when they’ll use some of that money to go get an abortion.
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The Texas Taliban call that a ‘feature’, not a bug.
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Yes. Same reason they (and FL, and IA, and AL) are targeting college professors: win-win. That’s why I haven’t left yet.
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It’s going to surprise these Mooks that threatening one of the nation’s largest law firms isn’t exactly the smart thing to do.
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Commerce Clause? If you haven’t noticed by now, the Roberts court doesn’t care much about the Constitution and its fancy clauses. They just wait for the Federalist society to send it a good test case for cover, Alito does some research on Medieval law, and voila! 6-3.
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I think DeSanitize might be close to overplaying his hand. I doubt his attack on Disney gave most corporations a warm, fuzzy feeling.
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Up until your comment, I thought the business world would be against these laws. Now I realize that these laws actually create a near-slave class that cannot leave the state and can be paid pennies on the dollar for what their male counterparts make.
This is excellent news for American Business!
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Same for “Patriot”
Except maybe the NFL team.
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What about recruiting for college athletics?
“We have great facilities, great team and no women’s healthcare.”
Great recruiting pitch.
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People with resources and any kind of social capital have been leaving red states for a long time. This will just increase the drain and push the gender mix of migrants toward more women. Regions with a serious mismatch of genders do tend to get pretty weird socially and culturally, though.
(It remains to be see how this will affect rich people and their offspring in red states. On the one hand, richer women will have no trouble leaving for a little vacation or a business meeting; on the other hand, they have the resources to move somewhere they won’t have a constant level of existential background anxiety.)
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Going to be interesting next year when all those collegiate athletes are scrambling around figuring out how they’re going to pay for child support.
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The same party ideology that is trying to go after Disneyland. Disney lawyers eat broken glass for breakfast and wash it down with artist’s tears.
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Keep women poor and desperate and you don’t have to pay them the same salary as a man.
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Corollary: when a country includes “Democratic” in their name, they aren’t.
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Good point. I call the Senate “permanent gerrymander.” Don’t see how we can do anything about it. Only way I see around the electoral college is the popular vote movement. Colorado voted yes.
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Sidley and Austin is one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the nation headquartered in Chicago whose list of former managing partners include Adlai Stevenson.
The point is between Texas AG Paxton who spends more time in court as a defendant then he does as a lawyer taking on Sidly and Austin, my money is not on Paxton.
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The Texas Freedom Caucus’ threat marks the next frontier in the GOP’s war on reproductive rights: Policing across state lines and barring people from accessing abortions in other states,
I will no longer quibble: irony is dead to these people.
They are, though, the devout believers in, ‘One rule for me, another for thee,’ so it was probably ill considered for me to question that at all.
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Likewise, when a political party uses “Republican” in their name…
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maybe that’ll be what it takes for them to get a stipend along with tuition and room/board
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Not only did I read the article, the number one online comment is from me.
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