Military leaders claim Tommy Tuberville's actions are a national security risk, but the senator is defiant.

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[+] 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Working around the GOP's bullshit is a short-term solution. They need to be permanently removed from power.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Then we need to do the short term solution while we work on the long term solution. I'm kind of sick of one side trying to keep it a fair fight. GOP politicians have all shown they don't care about that and will employ any means necessary to get their policies enacted while doing everything they can to disrupt the policies on the other side

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do the same at VAs

    The problem with that is that it may have been legal at the place it was done, but states would absolutely place police next door to wait for those women to come out. They already have laws that criminalize women who go out of state

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    How is that legal? I thought states can only enforce laws that are broken in their own jurisdiction? Interstate would make it a federal matter, no? (In regards to women going out of state)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It's almost certainly unconstitutional, but there's not specific case law so it has to be litigated to know for sure. So there needs to be people charged who have the means and willingness to go through several years of trials and appeals. And they have to maintain that motivation for a long time - some cases drag on for a decade or longer.

    The point isn't to make it illegal forever, it's to scare people and organizations without the resources to engage in a legal fight to stop supporting interstate care for the next three or five or ten years.

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