Republicans Finally Caught the Car

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/republicans-finally-caught-the-car


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The Texas law is a ghoulishly insidious piece of legislation designed to rebuff legal challenges (and it worked!) by taking state enforcement out of the picture in favor of deputized citizens incentivized by bounties paid by violators. Texans are encouraged to file civil suits against fellow citizens they suspect of performing or facilitating an abortion. “Aiding and abetting” an abortion might include, say, handing someone the phone number of an abortion clinic in an adjacent state. If the court finds in the plaintiff’s favor, they are entitled to extract at least $10,000 from the accused, plus court costs.

There’s a lot one might say about this grotesque scheme. It’s an invitation to surveil, harass and intimidate anyone inclined to actively protect women's reproductive autonomy. It sets citizens against each other. This is some real Stasi shit. Eyes-and-ears-are-everywhere! This is. . . not a recipe for social amity and civic health.

Of course, the titanic hypocrisy of maintaining that it’s a tyrannical imposition on “medical freedom” even for private businesses and institutions to mandate masks or vaccines while simultaneously promoting state-sanctioned bounty-hunting to enforce a regime of coerced pregnancy and childbirth is . . . crazymaking. It is hypocrisy of infinite density — a black hole of bad faith from which nary a glimmer of moral principle or intellectual honesty can escape.

And don’t get me started on the court majority’s unsigned opinion ruling that the law ought to go into effect. The basic idea really is just that there is nothing the Court can do to secure our Constitutional Rights against a dubiously constitutional laws as long as states enforce them with bounty hunters. It’s pure arbitrary insanity! It is, as Sotomayor puts it, “untenable.” She writes, “It cannot be the case that a State can evade federal judicial scrutiny by outsourcing the enforcement of unconstitutional laws to its citizenry.”

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[lame54]

1. Combine it with their new anything goes gun law

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. And their rural whites only voting scheme.

[calimary]

2. K&R

[Tikki]

4. I wonder if this will include a mandatory pregnancy test at the Texas borders

and at Texas transportation hubs for any female of child bearing age leaving the State for any reason.

Tikki

[Traildogbob]

5. Assholes caught the car

Now let em bite the tires as it is moving and watch them squash their empty heads as the women get organized. The pussy hat March was nothing for what’s coming. Gonna be some curb stomping of testicles. The giant ain’t sleeping now. It’s woke and pissed and coming for GQP.

[Cyrano]

6. Yep, they caught the car. And now, they're going to

eat it, enjoy it, and then chase down and eat more cars.

And who's to stop them?

We Democrats are on the side of fairness, justice and all the other good stuff. Yet, somehow, someway, we forgot how to fight those who are dedicated to the demise of our values and even our very existence. They are vicious, they are evil, and they are winning.

High tech and social media has made possible the dominance of the few over the many. It's a new kind of political "war." Yet, for all our smarts, we are fighting the last war and we're losing this one. It's past time for us to confront the evil that's intent on destroying democracy, grasp the magnitude of what we are up against, and then crush it so it never rises again. After all, we are not only the overwhelming majority. We are on the right side of history and morality.

[SergeStorms]

7. Don't think for one second....

that Democrats are going to take this laying down.

This dastardly bit of business by the GQP wasn't hatched in a few days. This took years of planning by the Texas GQP to come up with this piece of crap, and Democrats aren't going to overcome it in a few days either. However, they will overcome it, and it won't take that long.

The GQP knows they're playing a stupid, losing game. This is their final, last-chance grab for power. The demographics of the United States favor Democrats, not fascist dick-warts like the GQP.

Democrats will overcome this. Hopefully minimal damage will be done in the interim.

[Hiawatha Pete]

8. +1

[sarchasm]

9. Spectacular analysis

Caught the car indeed.

Thanks for sharing Nevilledog!

[gldstwmn]

10. Pretty much. You don't see any of them trumpeting this decision.

Abbot fucked them with this one. He energized the Dem base and boy are they going to be able to fundraise off this. If Beto throws his hat in the ring then it's his to lose I think. He's currently registering people to vote. There was a poll in June that showed McConaughey and Abbott neck and neck should McConaughey run. That shows how vulnerable Abbott is. His actions are that of someone who's desperate IMO.

[cstanleytech]

11. Doesn't the law also protect the one that files the lawsuit

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from being sued for legal fees by the person they accuse? If the answer is yes then how about a few hundred lawsuits being filed against varies Republican politicians in the state including Abbott using the law? That’s if of course that is what the law says and then we can watch as they scramble to come up with the money to pay all the lawyers they will need, money that they cannot legally seek to recoup.
Edit: Side benefit is also if they decide to ignore the lawsuits then they will have summary judgement imposed upon them so each one they do that is a ring of a cash register that hits them for $10,000

[crickets]

12. Love the last paragraph in this piece. May it be so. nt