The Right to Travel in a Post-Roe World

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i think we’re heading for interstate legal conflict on a scale that americans have not experienced since before the 1850 fugitive slave act https://nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/the-right-to-travel-in-a-post-roe-world.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share…
Demonstrators marched to the home of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh in September. Though some form of a constitutional right to travel is almost uniformly accepted, the Supreme Court has struggled to say exactly where to find it or precisely how to define it.
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The Right to Travel in a Post-Roe World
In a concurring opinion last month, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said the Constitution did not allow states to stop women from traveling to get abortions. But the issue is more complicated than that.
7:33 AM · Jul 12, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/the-right-to-travel-in-a-post-roe-world.html

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WASHINGTON — Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh signed the recent majority opinion that overruled Roe v. Wade. He also issued a 12-page concurring opinion, writing only for himself. He wanted to discuss, he wrote, “the future implications” of the decision.

“Some of the other abortion-related legal questions raised by today’s decision are not especially difficult as a constitutional matter,” he wrote. “For example, may a state bar a resident of that state from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no based on the constitutional right to interstate travel.”

A few hours later, Rory Little, a law professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, noted a bit of irony on Twitter: “Justice Kavanaugh votes to overrule abortion protections because not specifically mentioned in the Constitution — and then his concurrence relies on an unwritten ‘constitutional right to interstate travel.’”

You will indeed search the Constitution in vain for the word travel, just as you will not find the word abortion. And though some form of a constitutional right to travel is almost uniformly accepted, the Supreme Court has struggled to say exactly where to find it or precisely how to define it.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Just-us Beer Bong Weenie Waver was drunk when he wrote that

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy
Republicans will steal your rights
and kill democracy

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2. Kick