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Saturday, December 24th, 2022

Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Are Laying a Groundwork to Escape Oversight From Courts

Author:     Sharon Zhang
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     December 14, 2022
 Link: Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Are Laying a Groundwork to Escape Oversight From Courts
Stephan:   SR reports on trends that are shaping the future and this is one of the nastier trends I see. Please be clear, this has nothing to do with saving the lives of unborn fetuses. If the anti-choice fanatics cared a twig for children they would be leaders in pregnancy healthcare, early childhood care, child education, and maternal care. In fact, they not only do not support such programs they are against them. Look at the social outcome data in the states where these people have control. There is no question about this. The anti-choice movement is about controlling women, keeping them in a second-class status. I see this as little different in essence than what the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan. Like the 6 January insurrection, this is all part of the christofascist maneuverings to end democracy and assure White supremacy authoritarian control of the United States whatever the majority of Americans want.
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Conservative state lawmakers waged an assault on state courts in 2022, introducing dozens of bills that seek to give themselves more power by preventing courts from being able to block unlawful abortion bans or election restrictions, in what appears to be a step in fascism’s “legal phase.”

A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice finds that lawmakers across 25 states considered at least 74 bills aimed at curbing state courts’ power this year, with five of those bills eventually becoming law.

These bills all appear to be related to the right’s current quest to hand total power to politicians while stripping away other officials’ ability to keep them in check, representing an attack on the concept of checks and balances in state government. They also appear to be attempts to set the stage for further extremism coming from an increasingly far right Republican Party, and in many cases relate to specific topics that the right is currently focused on.

For instance, 16 laws were specifically related to preventing state or federal […]

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