The reactionary Supreme Court majority means more reactionary laws are coming

[Nevilledog]

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Chris Geidner
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States are looking at banning travel for certain types of healthcare. The Supreme Court may let them. My latest at @gridnews looks at the ever-more-extreme anti-abortion and anti-trans legislation we're seeing — and how #SCOTUS might say it's OK:

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The reactionary Supreme Court majority means more reactionary laws are coming
States are looking at banning travel for certain types of healthcare. The court may let them.
1:21 PM · Mar 11, 2022

https://www.grid.news/story/politics/2022/03/11/the-reactionary-supreme-court-majority-means-more-reactionary-laws-are-coming/


The Supreme Court is yet to rule on the Mississippi 15-week abortion ban that many expect could lead to an end to Roe v. Wade. But the arguments in that case and the court’s actions allowing Texas’ S.B. 8 vigilante enforcement six-week abortion ban to go into effect are already causing ripple effects as conservative lawmakers sense that the court’s new far-right majority might allow laws that past courts would have struck down.

A lawmaker in Missouri has already been working this winter to get her state to pass legislation that purports to make it illegal for people from Missouri to go anywhere — Missouri, Illinois, New York, anywhere — to get an abortion. Legislation across the country restricting people’s ability to obtain abortions and obtain transgender-related healthcare, among many other topics, could be headed through a legal system with an increasingly reactionary Supreme Court setting legal rules for the nation.

Republican Missouri State Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman has been introducing an amendment into the state’s House bills that would ban abortions in Missouri and bar people from providing abortions to Missouri citizens or residents or even helping them get abortions out of state, as first reported earlier this week by the Washington Post. The enforcement of this proposed ban, like Texas’ S.B. 8, would be through private lawsuits. The amendment serves as perhaps the starkest example yet of the changes the new Supreme Court majority has unleashed.

Although Coleman’s provision would seem to violate a lot of key constitutional principles — including the right to travel, federalism principles and traditional rules that states respect the laws of other states — a trio of law professors examining what the legal landscape would look like should the Supreme Court overturn Roe by June have concluded it’s entirely possible that such restrictions could be upheld by a majority of the current justices.

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[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Hillary just wasn't "likable" enough for some people.

Corporate, war hawk blah, blah, blah. Make no mistake, the coming fascist takeover was brought to us by the people who claim to hate the far right the most and had the most to lose.

I’ll never get over what happened in 2016.

[PortTack]

2. Gonna stay it again..and again and again..women of child bearing age need to leave these states

They are NOT safe there