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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf the Texiban law stands, what kinds of speech could states make "actionable"?
As I understand it (and I might be wrong) the Texas law enables lawsuit on the basis of alleged advocacy of abortion.
This is awful enough on its own, but it does lead me to wonder: What else could similarly be made actionable on a bounty basis?
Voter registration drives? (could merely registering as a Democrat be seen as tacit abortion advocacy?)
Union organizing?
Mentioning slavery in public?
Donating to a cause?
Hosting a campaign yardsign?
Vaccination advocacy?
This is the distilled essence of slippery slope legislation. Sickening.
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multigraincracker
(32,632 posts)Wayte v. United States 470 U.S. 598 (1985)[5] said:
In our criminal justice system, the Government retains "broad discretion" as to whom to prosecute. [...] This broad discretion rests largely on the recognition that the decision to prosecute is particularly ill-suited to judicial review. Such factors as the strength of the case, the prosecution's general deterrence value, the Government's enforcement priorities, and the case's relationship to the Government's overall enforcement plan are not readily susceptible to the kind of analysis the courts are competent to undertake.
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)[6] was the first case where the United States Supreme Court ruled that a law that is race-neutral on its face, but is administered in a prejudicial manner, is an infringement of the Equal Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement
Does this apply to economic status?
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Certainly not::: "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!" when yelled by a republican
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)https://www.vox.com/2021/8/31/22650303/supreme-court-abortion-texas-sb8-jackson-roe-wade-greg-abbott