AG Merrick Garland announced that the DOJ is filing a lawsuit against the state of Texas for their unconstitutional law banning abortion after 6 weeks and empowering bounty hunters to sue people for aiding any woman who attempts to get one after that. You can read all about the suit here.
I’ll just point out that I wrote this the other day about the Texas anti-abortion vigilante law:
This law’s novel approach to enforcement, essentially removing the state and using what amounts to vigilantes and bounty hunters (under the promise of $10,000 for every abortion aider and abettor they bag) is essentially a form of legal secession from the U.S. Constitution.
Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed my unschooled, non-lawyer observation today:
“This kind of scheme to nullify the Constitution of the United States is one that all Americans, whatever their politics or party, should fear,” said Garland, warning that what he called the “bounty hunter” element of the law may become “a model for action in other areas by other states and with respect to other constitutional rights or judicial precedents.”
You would think that Republicans might have worried about this being used to ban the constitutional rights they value, like gun ownership.I suppose they feel confident that the Trump Court will protect them, which is probably correct. Still, it’s an extremely radical proposal that you’d think the so-called “conservative” party would not have proposed. Of course, they haven’t been conservative for a very long time so that’s no surprise.