SCOTUS fails to stop TX abortion law.

[evillawyer]

TX's abortion law preventing abortions after six weeks and authorizing private lawsuits against people who assist someone in getting an abortion has taken effect.

Texas’ Near-Ban on Abortions Takes Effect After Supreme Court Fails to Act

 

[NorthDallas40]

Love the law crafting! Classic Texas politics at work!

But the Texas law was drafted to make it difficult to challenge in court. Usually, a lawsuit seeking to block a law because it is unconstitutional would name state officials as defendants. But the Texas law bars state officials from enforcing it and instead deputizes private individuals to sue anyone who performs the procedure or “aids and abets” it.

The patient may not be sued, but doctors, staff members at clinics, counselors, people who help pay for the procedure, even an Uber driver taking a patient to an abortion clinic are all potential defendants. Plaintiffs, who need not have any connection to the matter or show any injury from it, are entitled to $10,000 and their legal fees recovered if they win. Prevailing defendants are not entitled to legal fees.

 

[rjd970]

Love the law crafting! Classic Texas politics at work!

I’m not a lawyer but that doesn’t sound like it would hold up in a SCOTUS challenge. Codifying the ability of anyone to sue somebody without having to show damages and have legal fees re-imbursed? Seems like that is a Pandora box for frivolous lawsuits.

 

[hog88]

Love the law crafting! Classic Texas politics at work!

I don't like the idea of allowing someone not associated, injured or affected in anyway being able to sue another person. Idiot blue states could pass similar legislation allowing gun owners to be sued for simply owning a gun.

 

[NorthDallas40]

I’m not a lawyer but that doesn’t sound like it would hold up in a SCOTUS challenge. Codifying the ability of anyone to sue somebody without having to show damages and have legal fees re-imbursed? Seems like that is a Pandora box for frivolous lawsuits.

That’s exactly why it was crafted the way it was. Abortion is still completely legal in Texas today. It just might cost a whole lot more.

Go Google there are a lot of legal opinions on the crafting.

Personally I don’t think the law is a good idea. But I do appreciate the Machiavellian drafting. Classic Texas

 

[Tyler Durden]

Love the law crafting! Classic Texas politics at work!

 

[NorthDallas40]

I don't like the idea of allowing someone not associated, injured or affected in anyway being able to sue another person. Idiot blue states could pass similar legislation allowing gun owners to be sued for simply owning a gun.

Read my reply below your post. I’m not a fan of it either but it’s a helluva Texas approach to problem solving. And I know what a fan of Texas you are already.

 

[hog88]

That’s exactly why it was crafted the way it was. Abortion is still completely legal in Texas today. It just might cost a whole lot more.

Go Google there are a lot of legal opinions on the crafting.

Personally I don’t think the law is a good idea. But I do appreciate the Machiavellian drafting. Classic Texas

Yeah, classic Texas.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Yeah, classic Texas.

I know you’re a fan!

 

[hog88]

I know you’re a fan!

Big fan.

Off topic, just picked up (well expanded) an account to include all of their N Tejas which includes OK. YAY me. So We'll be setting up shop somewhere up there over the next couple of months.

 

[NorthDallas40]

Big fan.

Off topic, just picked up (well expanded) an account to include all of their N Tejas which includes OK. YAY me. So We'll be setting up shop somewhere up there over the next couple of months.

So you’ll be spending chunks of time in N Texas. We have to figure out a way to break bread a couple of times dude.

 

[evillawyer]

I don't like the idea of allowing someone not associated, injured or affected in anyway being able to sue another person. Idiot blue states could pass similar legislation allowing gun owners to be sued for simply owning a gun.

Brilliant! Or as JJ would say:

 

[NorthDallas40]

Brilliant! Or as JJ would say:

You should tell the lawyers you do research for to start working on that for New York State. I think it’s a great idea and can’t wait to see the response.

 

[evillawyer]

If SCOTUS does nothing, expect huge political pressure to be put on large Texas companies to in turn press the legislature to change. Texas will become a pariah state and you won't see those California corporate dollars flowing into Texas.

 

[NorthDallas40]

If SCOTUS does nothing, expect huge political pressure to be put on large Texas companies to in turn press the legislature to change. Texas will become a pariah state and you won't see those California corporate dollars flowing into Texas.

LMAO too late shrew! Your hot take is crap as usual.

What people should expect is an onslaught by religious anti abortion groups against organizations like Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics and most likely a large number will make the business decision to close up shop in Texas.

 

[hog88]

So you’ll be spending chunks of time in N Texas. We have to figure out a way to break bread a couple of times dude.

I'll be out there some but not much, my FM for out there will handle most of it. I do try to avoid Texas as much as possible

 

[NorthDallas40]

I'll be out there some but not much, my FM for out there will handle most of it. I do try to avoid Texas as much as possible

figure out a way to drop me a line and I’ll buy you a steak.

 

[hog88]

If SCOTUS does nothing, expect huge political pressure to be put on large Texas companies to in turn press the legislature to change. Texas will become a pariah state and you won't see those California corporate dollars flowing into Texas.

Good. But ya know they ain't going back to Cali don't you?

 

[hog88]

figure out a way to drop me a line and I’ll buy you a steak.

I used to have to go to Frisco every month and those guys used to make fun of me because I'd always fly in and out on the same day.

 

[evillawyer]

Looks like pro-choice is the plurality view in Texas.

Texas voters' views shifting on abortion, pot, gambling and Confederate monuments, poll finds

 

[NorthDallas40]

Looks like pro-choice is the plurality view in Texas.

Texas voters' views shifting on abortion, pot, gambling and Confederate monuments, poll finds

Of course it is.

Public opinion in Texas about the availability of abortion has scarcely changed over the last several years. In this latest poll, 13% said abortion should never be permitted; 31% said “the law should permit abortion only in case of rape, incest or when the woman’s life is in danger"; 12% said it should also be allowed in other cases, “but only after the need for the abortion has been clearly established”; and 38% said “a woman should always be able to obtain an abortion as a matter of personal choice.”

 

[evillawyer]

Of course it is.

Public opinion in Texas about the availability of abortion has scarcely changed over the last several years. In this latest poll, 13% said abortion should never be permitted; 31% said “the law should permit abortion only in case of rape, incest or when the woman’s life is in danger"; 12% said it should also be allowed in other cases, “but only after the need for the abortion has been clearly established”; and 38% said “a woman should always be able to obtain an abortion as a matter of personal choice.”

Methinks you don't know the meaning of "plurality"

 

[volinbham]

so what was the Constitutional issue that merited SCOTUS taking this up?

 

[NorthDallas40]

Methinks you don't know the meaning of "plurality"

I do in fact. In a non binary case it’s the highest of the brackets accounted for. A plurality candidate would receive no clear majority but the highest percentage as compared to the rest. The article listed the binary pro-life/pro-choice as 40/41%. All I pointed out is it isn’t that simple. If anything you tried to take a binary comparison and push it as a plurality most supported case available. That isn’t correct.

Edit: I clarified my reply via coloring for you. That is most likely presented in a format you can better absorb. There all better.

 

[NorthDallas40]

so what was the Constitutional issue that merited SCOTUS taking this up?

There isn’t a clear case. That’s it. Abortion is still 100% legal in Texas and the state is not telling anybody they cannot seek one.

It pressures the providers. It places no limit on the persons seeking an abortion.