Yup, boarder towns in red states are going to start stopping women as they travel through their towns to make sure they aren’t pregnant.
I’m guessing these will fall on 14th amendment grounds.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
Traveling to another state to access services that are illegal in your state is a privilege of US citizens.
I’m pretty sure it’s in the main body of the Constitution somewhere that all citizens may travel freely between and among the several States. Don’t even need to get to the BoR.
Edit: found a review - https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIV-S2-C1-13/ALDE_00013789/[‘travel’]
There’s a Supreme Court ruling that the right to travel may not be deprived without due process of law, so it’s considered part of the 5th amendment.
Yeah, I think so. They probably know it’s not enforceable, but are hoping ignorance wins the day and fearful people will follow their laws. It’s terrible.
I think it’s to appease their ignorant base and get through the next primary. And for a bonus they can complain about the radical liberal courts overturning their good and moral laws.
this from the party of “feedom”
Epitome of small government!
But see, it’s not another department and they can say that it doesn’t cost any more money, so of course, it’s still “small government”.
They have never believed in freedom. They are the philosophical heirs to slavers. The fact that they call themselves Republicans now is of little import
Slave catchers and preventing black people from leaving for free states. That worked well in the 1860s.
I’m not from the USA, but all sensible people from there that care about living in a non fascist state should be panicking right now. Your “democracy” is now in direct threat and the people need to rise up and show that they won’t let this shit pass. Besides voting, get out in the streets and protest. Do everything that needs to be done to show that the loud minority is just that, a minority.
To keep fascism from rising up, you need to be intolerant of the ones who show no tolerance. Your enemy has no moral bounds and will do anything to achieve their hateful goals, if it comes down to it then violence is not immoral if you’re violent against someone who gets off on people suffering, it’s self defense.
Been panicking since 2015, at this point my body is made up of 90% stress hormones and a giant ulcer.
One of the things to understand about the USA is all the layers to our government. A person living in any arbitrary place in the country has to deal with laws enacted by a Federal government for the entire country, a State government, and possibly more than one local government (perhaps a County government, and a city/town government). The “lower” layers enact policies that benefit the local community directly and which are too detailed for the Federal or State governments, like zoning laws and public school administration.
The US Constitution explicitly devolves powers that are not assigned to the Federal Government to the States, and the States assign powers to local governments where it makes sense. But local politicians are not always the most adept legislators. They are elected from the local community on its own terms. These local politicians may not always understand the limits on their power. One would hope the town lawyer does, but the local politicians are not obliged to listen.
So, what it comes down to is that these policies in some rural Texas town are being enacted by some local politician who may have been elected by 300 people, may or may not be a lawyer, and who may not understand the full extent of whether their policies are even allowed under State law. Yet they are empowered to do it anyway, and when their decisions involve an issue that has nationwide visibility, it becomes nationwide news. People can be upset and shake their fist over it, but nothing can be done unless the citizens of that small town decide to change it (or their State government finds that they never had the power to do that in the first place).
“I am engaged in private interstate commerce. I have a valid license and this vehicle is registered with the state. You have no cause to stop me. I am free to go.”
This one knows how to get themselves arrested for failure to comply and resisting arrest.
I did “win” against a border guard on a bus once, but I am probably too much of a coward to refuse to show me ID again. Next thing I know I am being arrested for assault due to bleeding from my gunshot wounds and they feared for their life because I had a Swiss army knife in my pocket.
I am panicking. I live in Ohio and am currently on track to leave to a safer state by March. Idealy I can join with other like minded people and come back in a few years with a rifle and air support.
Texas is not the USA and this proposal is absolutely not Constitutional.
We’re not panicking.
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“You had an abortion at location x in the afternoon of the 2nd. We can prove you fueled your car in county x that morning. The only route you could have taken was through county y.”
It’s why that mafia guy always pays cash at the tolls
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It’s easier than that your phone company will sell your data in aggregate and can trivially prove who both drove through their town and stopped at an abortion clinic. You also bought the pregnancy test with your debit card, had it shipped to your address, used your loyalty card to save 50c on the eggs you bought at the same time. You did the research via google search, navigated via google maps.
Even if you did none of these things the mere act of recording license plates driving through and then situating folks at abortion clinics to record plates could easily leak enough information. We should do more to protect our information but we must accept as a practical fact that for most too much will leak and attend to strenuously protecting our rights even in the face of such leaks.
The article says this might be a test case. I imagine that they plan to just add on charges. Someone uses the Pharisees tattle bounty on someone getting an abortion, they figure out she must have driven through that area.
Yeah this really really reminds me of the Soviet Union ca. 1970. The state does not allow you to travel because fuck you.
America bout to have my ass illegally immigrating to mexico.
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Democrats are pushing for it too, they’re just less likely than republicans to say the quiet part out loud.
The Republicans can see their power slipping as young people are becoming more aware and involved, and it seems as though they’ve gone into overdrive in an attempt to save their wretched ideology. Just about every day there’s at least one story about them taking things to the next level, and it’s gotten out of control.
Anyone who has seen the plan the Heritage Foundation laid out for replacing career experts in regulatory agencies and government offices with their own far right people in order to literally, in their own words, dismantle the administrative state, should be terrified.
They want autocracy, with them at the top. Forever. And now that it is getting more and more unlikely that could happen democratically, they’re taking matters into their own hands before it’s too late for them and their party dies.
EVERYBODY NEEDS TO VOTE. READ THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION’S RECENTLY RELEASED PLAN, AND FUCKING VOTE.
Where can you find the Heritage Foundation’s plan? I’ve checked out their website but any mention of it seems buried.
Is there any way I could upload a file? I have it downloaded, but can’t find it on their website anymore.
They named it “Project 2025.” If you use that when you search, you should be able to find it. Weirdly, before I had that search term, I was also having trouble finding it. Makes my tinfoil hat tingle a little bit.
Doesn’t it, though? After all these eyes and articles on what they’re doing, it’s a little hard to find it now. Hmm…
Weirdly, I was having issues finding it searching on Google until I found a little bit and realized they called it "Project 2025”. If you search for that along with “heritage” you’ll find the plan itself, as well as discussion about it.
It’s very bad news.
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If voting didn’t matter, the GOP wouldn’t be spending so much money and resources to disenfranchise voters in swing states.
Just find a restaurant right next to the clinic and say it’s her favorite spot. She’s got some wild cravings and it’s the only place in hundreds of miles where you can get (insert unique dessert here)
Wild that the people who lose their shit that vaccines are tracking us through imaginary microchips are voting for people who want to track everything we do
What’s the opposite of “you had me in the first half?”
“You lost me in the second half”?
“Excuse me ma’am, I’m going to need to see your uterus before you can leave Texas”
So what are you in jail for?
- driving while pregnant.
Red states are going to have their prison quotas apparently.
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What app is that? Looks neat.
Connect
Looks like Connect.
