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In reply to the discussion: Please help me understand something about Roe [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,422 posts)56. Your analogy is appropriate -
and why I have said that any attempt to restrict travel for the purpose of engaging in interstate commerce (whether gambling or obtaining an abortion) is unconstitutional.
It is precisely because it will be hard to declare one unconstitutional, without the other, that I dont' believe travel restrictions will hold. That isn't to say that they won't try, and that it won't take years to sort out. Just that ultimately, state laws discriminating for/against residents of the state as to interstate commerce are unconstitutional under the dormant commerce clause.
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Because these people have a problem with Boundaries - they are borderline, all of them
bucolic_frolic
Jun 2022
#2
Even Scalia distanced himself from Thomas by saying "Look, I'm an originalist, but I'm not a nut."
Midwestern Democrat
Jun 2022
#57
Are you arguing that because Mr Justice Kavanaugh said something on Tuesday...
malthaussen
Jun 2022
#42
It wouldn't be and that is one of the administration's clear messages.
Pacifist Patriot
Jun 2022
#13
This ruling was as much Class Warfare as anything. Only it was Class Warfare against one sex.
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2022
#54
Maybe this will help: Roe didn't force anyone to do anything. The Roe decision
in2herbs
Jun 2022
#24
Their precedent will look an awful lot like the Fugitive Slave Laws. Texas already has a bounty law.
Hekate
Jun 2022
#49
States have no jurisdiction over offenses that happen in other states
Midwestern Democrat
Jun 2022
#58
