2. @michelleinbklyn has good column on how new anti-abortion laws part of larger right-wing embrace of vigilantism. Could add: "stand your ground" laws, Jan. 6 recast as "political prisoners," cult of Punisher.pic.twitter.com/F2dJWJrnln
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2. @michelleinbklyn has good column on how new anti-abortion laws part of larger right-wing embrace of vigilantism. Could add: "stand your ground" laws, Jan. 6 recast as "political prisoners," cult of Punisher.pic.twitter.com/F2dJWJrnln
3. The insidious part of the new deputizing of anti-choice bounty hunters is that it'll revive (in age of social media surveillance) the older social form of conformity through public opinion, the tyranny of the busybody. More here: https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-end-of-roe-and-the-rise-of-vigilantes?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
the anti-abortion movement has trended that way, with GOP controlled legislatures giving tons of money to anti-choice clinics and loosening laws designed to protect patients. they've been clear with antis: do what you have to do.
The weirdest part, this happened while democrats controlled all three branches of government.
They control 2 branches.. if they ‘controlled’ the judicial branch this wouldn’t have happened. Did you notice how all of the justices who were appointed by Democrats dissented?
Actually I rather expect that rather than a "cloud" of individual vigilantes finding lawyers themselves, what you would actually get is the right-wing legal/political industry developing an economy-of-scale lawsuit enterprise fed by tiplines ...
.. except that the providers seem to all be holding back, maybe considering how to put together a test case? (see also: Scopes trial) ...
The bigger issue is selectively legislating from the bench. Roe v. Wade sort of did that. Shelby County v. Holder (voting rights act depowering) definitely did. Declining to halt the Texas statute until a case can be heard arguably also.
Vigilantism seems to be their solution to the problem that they are losing all of these arguments.
Losing the argument = a 6-3 SCOTUS majority primed to strike down Roe v Wade next year and state majorities passing laws restricting abortion? Feels like winning from my foxhole.
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