What in the sam hell.https://twitter.com/dominicholden/status/1044666661780033537 …
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Chris Geidner Retweeted Dominic Holden
What in the sam hell.https://twitter.com/dominicholden/status/1044666661780033537 …
Chris Geidner added,
At least just reading the motion, it doesn't seem shocking? Texas law requires parental permission; the student challenges that law; Texas intervened to defend the constitutionality of the law.
And the motion cites a CA11 case where a similar parental-permission-required statute was upheld against a facial attack. So, I wouldn't say that the motion (which is just to intervene to defend the constitutionality of the law) is bonkers.
Agreed that procedurally this is fairly unremarkable (as someone who has intervened to defend statutes both for a state and for the U.S.). Often the "defense" of troubling laws is to argue for severability, etc., to save as much as you can. State is better positioned to do that.
Even their intervention filing makes pretty apparent that they are looking to defend wholly and on the merits. And here’s Paxton’s quote:pic.twitter.com/72QYhxM1au
I don't know the larger circumstances and have no opinion about whether the AG's office is acting appropriately here (on the in-court merits or the surrounding political grandstanding).
The motion itself makes clear it’s more than just “procedural.”
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