How the rest of the country should respond to Texas judges wishing to force their RW vision on us

[ck4829]

One Texas Judge Will Decide Fate of Abortion Pill Used by Millions of American Women

AMARILLO, Texas — Federal judges in Texas have delivered time and again for abortion opponents.

They upheld a state law that allows for $10,000 bounties to be placed on anyone who helps a woman get an abortion; ruled that someone opposed to abortion based on religious beliefs can block a federal program from providing birth control to teens; and determined that emergency room doctors must equally weigh the life of a pregnant woman and her embryo or fetus.

Now abortion rights advocates — galvanized by the reversal of Roe v. Wade — are girding for another decision from a Texas courtroom that could force the FDA to remove a widely used abortion pill from pharmacies and physicians’ offices nationwide.

The wide-ranging lawsuit, brought by a conservative Christian legal group, argues that the FDA’s approval process more than two decades ago was flawed when it authorized the use of mifepristone, which stops the development of a pregnancy and is part of a two-drug regimen used in medication abortions.

https://khn.org/news/article/texas-abortion-pill-lawsuit-mifepristone-pbs-newshour/

Texas asks a Trump judge to declare most of the federal government unconstitutional

Earlier this month, Texas’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit claiming that the $1.7 trillion spending law that keeps most of the federal government — including the US military — operating through September of 2023 is unconstitutional.

Paxton’s claims in Texas v. Garland, which turn on the fact that many of the lawmakers who voted for the bill voted by proxy, should fail. They are at odds with the Constitution’s explicit text. And a bipartisan panel of a powerful federal appeals court in Washington, DC, already rejected a similar lawsuit in 2021.

Realistically, this lawsuit is unlikely to prevail even in the current, highly conservative Supreme Court. Declaring a law that funds most of the federal government unconstitutional would be an extraordinary act, especially given the very strong legal arguments against Paxton’s position.

But the case is a window into Paxton’s broader litigation strategy, where he frequently raises weak legal arguments undercutting federal policies before right-wing judges that he has personally chosen because of their ideology. And these judges often do sow chaos throughout the government, which can last months or longer, before a higher court steps in.

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/2/26/23611826/texas-trump-judge-hendrix-government-shutdown-proxy-voting-omnibus-supreme-court

They can make any ruling they wish, but if they want the rest of the country to follow their whims, then maybe it's time to act as their power grids during blizzards and police during school shootings do... Stand around and do nothing.

[The Magistrate]

1. I Am Inclined To Agree, Sir

'Old Hickory' takes a lot of much-deserved flak around here, but there's a certain ring to Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it....

[Augiedog]

2. Texas needs to be declared, officially, a deviant sex cult

[DENVERPOPS]

3. And

Degenerate Reprobates..........


I love Songwriter and Singer Cheryl Wheeler's take on god and religion in our times.........

[Ilsa]

4. I'm looking forward to reading that Paxton has been

convicted and headed to prison. No more campaigns, no more public office- holding.

[Bettie]

8. I wish I believed that would ever happen

but he's never going to actually be prosecuted. I know "justice" moves slowly, but he's been indicted for years and....nothing.

It's hard to believe in justice when you don't see it most of the time.

[Mad_Machine76]

5. Every time I see Paxton's name in the news

I wonder aloud to myself, why isn’t he in jail
Yet or on trial?!

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yes it is going to be a state by state fall to full blown autocracy.

White male christian minority rule.