“We’re gonna need a bigger jail” 🤦
Washington should turn around and issue an arrest warrant for this idiot if he keeps on with trying to violate HIPAA.
Yeah, what does he think he is, some kind of big guvmint vaccine mandate coming to take our guns??
And, you know, constitutional law. Texas doesn’t have the right to enforce laws outside it’s borders.
I thought Texas was big on “States Rights!”
Yeah, Texas’ right to interfere with everyone else.
send in the state militia to arrest him and execute him. the civil war’s inevitable so may as well surprise decapitate them before they start
Just wait, this will happen with abortions too. They are testing the ground now. If a Republican ever get the white house again, they will use the feds to extradite doctors to Texas.
People need to be yelling about this until they can’t yell anymore. I don’t give a fuck if it ruins Christmas.
Yeah, this 100% feels like a trial balloon. It’s obviously ridiculous but it’s going to test some legal statute that will crack the door for whatever Gilead shit they actually intend. Probably abortion rights. First they came for the trans people, etc etc.
My heart goes out to anyone trapped in Texas or any other Gilead state.
If a Republican ever get the white house again,
I have really bad news for you…
I’ve been concerned Texas and other states would be looking for this kind of thing for abortions as well. Everyone has been telling me that this kind of thing is impossible and no one would ever try to go after a patient based on medical procedures done out of state.
I’m also concerned that Texas could issue an arrest warrant for medical personnel or people facilitating abortion travel who reside in California (for example) such that it becomes inadvisable to drive through Texas, or even have a layover.
It’s not paranoia if they’re actually after you.
IIRC the way the law works now is that any private citizen, regardless of whether or not they have any sort of relationship with the pregnant person, can sue anyone who “facilitates” abortion for Texas citizens. That includes taxi drivers, family members, maybe even gas station workers, etc. There is also a county that is (or has been) attempting to ban the usage of fucking roads to get to abortion facilities in other states, effectively barring you from travelling anywhere if there is a possibility you may be pregnant. Freedom!
effectively barring you from travelling anywhere if there is a possibility you may be pregnant. Freedom!
Holy Handmaid’s Tale, Batman! 🤬
It’s inadvisable to drive through Southern states already due to cops. They hold that the normal constitutional protections don’t apply due to the border, they have deported American citizens, they have been caught planting drugs, the vast majority of civil asset forfeitures are people who had under $1000 seized without evidence literal highway robbery.
Then there were the ladies who were legally kidnapped and taken to a hospital to have their buttholes search on a vague suspicion of drugs
Texas state troopers caught on camera probing women’s privates aren’t isolated incidents: lawyers
But wait years later they actually passed a law making it illegal to probe your asshole without a warrant because that’s something you need a law for
https://reason.com/2015/05/11/why-is-that-cops-finger-in-your-butt/
Which is why they then got sued for getting a warrant on a flimsy pretext and having a doctor do it…then continued to do it themselves as well
Basically you may or may not get raped or robbed by the police even before this unpleasantness.
But wait there’s more if you are pregnant and they believe you represent a danger to your fetus they reserve the right to hold you until you give birth in a prison shower like they did to that druggy chick!
Holy fuck I need to get out of Texas
Same :(
Let’s make a convoy
He is one of the dumbest people on the planet.
Dumb about important stuff, yeah, but this is just playing to his hate filled base since when he inevitably fails he can blame wokeness or some other conservative talking point. If you think of it as free campaigning to angry bigots it makes a lot of sense.
Ken Paxton needs to be peeled.
How to you put a hospital in jail?
Build a wall around it and make Mexicans pay for it.
too scared and useless to take on the gangs and criminals, so the Texas AG goes after hospitals and patients… wonder if the Texas Rangers are gonna ride out and grab a fugitive doctor and patient…
They’re gonna need a massive lasso for those hospitals
I thought all patient data was confidential stop trying to frame a privacy issue as a trans issue its only going to polarise and divide an audiance.
You see, Paxton and the GOP are the IN group and their trans victims are the OUT group!
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” --Frank Wilhoit
Well, there’s a quote I need to remember.
Reverse uno his ass and have a warrant sworn out on him for attempted unauthorized access to medical records.
I got it - a jackhammer!
I was trying to think of something this guy could go fuck himself with that was both fast AND hard enough.
Cover It with coarse sandpaper, broken glass and Komodo dragon saliva first. Don’t want the experience to be too comfortable for him.
It’s the attention to detail that matters. Nice work!
I aim to displease bows
Komodo dragon venom*
I don’t think the hospital is gonna run away. Putting it in jail seems pointless.
Texas is so stupid they think they can arrest a building dumb texas
Yeah how are they gonna handcuff it?
how do jurisdictions work again? can’t Seattle just say go fuck yourself Texas and be done with it?
They could, but it’s a pretty progressive city, so there’s nothing to lose and everything to gain for anyone public-facing in Seattle to be seen telling Paxton to fuck off.
Also, on a much less cynical note, making a bigot with grotesque demands look thoroughly foolish this time could create a precedent that could save lives in less clear-cut cases.
Tl;Dr: Telling Paxton off as loudly as possible (figuratively speaking) is both the opportune thing to do AND the right thing to do.
I’d like the news outlets to follow up on this. Next week. In two weeks. In three weeks. And how many times it takes to make it irrelevant and still prove that the original talking point is completely worthless.
They won’t. Because it’s a waste of space in the first place. I wish they’d treat it like that to begin with.
Reminder that Texas sucks. Republicans suck too. They’re a pox on humanity.
Texans are a bunch of fat ass pussies
