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VIGILANTE LAWSUITS AGAINST THE UNVACCINATED COULD FOLLOW IN THE WAKE OF ABORTION RIGHTS DISMISSAL
Is what’s good for the goose is good for the gander? In letting stand Texas’s draconian new anti-abortion law, The Supreme Court allowed states to deputize almost anyone in the world as bounty hunters to go after and punish anyone in Texas taking part in a Constitutionally legal and protected act, namely performing, aiding, or abetting an abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy.
But the Supreme Court’s 5-4 conservative majority may have been too clever by half. If Red states can evade judicial review by letting civilians instead of government be its enforcers of otherwise questionable, illegal and unconstitutional laws, then so can Blue states.
California, say, could pass a law giving anyone the right to sue any Californian who is unvaccinated and be entitled to receive $10,000 or more plus legal fees from each unvaxxed person.
It could virtually Xerox Texas’s anti-abortion law and just substitute “failing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 with a vaccination that has received full or emergency use approval from the FDA” for Texas’s “performing, aiding, or abetting an abortion after 6 weeks.” If the Supreme Court is consistent with its Texas abortion ruling, the initial effectiveness of such law couldn’t be prevented by any court.
Similarly, New York, say, could pass a law giving anyone the right to sue any New Yorker who possesses a gun and collect $10,000 or more plus legal fees.
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/syndicated/vigilante-lawsuits-unvaccinated-follow-wake-abortion-rights-dismissal/
But the Supreme Court’s 5-4 conservative majority may have been too clever by half. If Red states can evade judicial review by letting civilians instead of government be its enforcers of otherwise questionable, illegal and unconstitutional laws, then so can Blue states.
California, say, could pass a law giving anyone the right to sue any Californian who is unvaccinated and be entitled to receive $10,000 or more plus legal fees from each unvaxxed person.
It could virtually Xerox Texas’s anti-abortion law and just substitute “failing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 with a vaccination that has received full or emergency use approval from the FDA” for Texas’s “performing, aiding, or abetting an abortion after 6 weeks.” If the Supreme Court is consistent with its Texas abortion ruling, the initial effectiveness of such law couldn’t be prevented by any court.
Similarly, New York, say, could pass a law giving anyone the right to sue any New Yorker who possesses a gun and collect $10,000 or more plus legal fees.
Be careful what you wish for, you might get it . . .
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What a mess it would be.
But for once it would be on the opposition to fix. We would truly enjoy their discomfort.
