SCOTUS has it's abortion bill for next term. Will they take this one up, too?The abortion part of this bill will be dealt with one way or another by SCOTUS.
— Raffi Melkonian (@RMFifthCircuit) May 19, 2021
I tweeted about this several weeks ago - it delegates the enforcement mechanism to private citizens, giving "any person" a right to sue "any person" for "intending" to "aid or abet" abortion. 1/ https://t.co/nIE2gv48XV
Not likely. Not unless the 5th Circuit decides to overrule Casey. So, not likely. It does have some curious provisions regarding private citizens suing people they think have violated the law, including doctors and healthcare providers. But those additions to Texas tort law don't really make this law any more or less an egregious bit of court bait than it already is.
In the meantime, Texas is on track to suffer power losses in the summer, and the only bill out of the Lege so far related to the February storm is one to ban wholesale purchasing of electricity by individual consumers. The largest such seller in the market declared bankruptcy in March, so that horse has left the burning barn.
Oh, and the Lege is still thinking about banning "Critical Race Theory" from public education by banning any teaching that one race (or gender) is superior to another. No word on whether they will add a rider banning the teaching of deconstructionism or anything that introduces French phenomenology into Texas public schools.
If there are other bills to show up before “Sine Die,” they haven’t been signed into law as hastily as this turkey.
It’s a representative government. Just not in the way most people mean that phrase.
Imagine what's going to happen when they discover oglocracy and ban that, inadvertently outlawing the current Republican Party.
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