Ohio GOP lawmakers call to block courts from implementing new abortion amendment
Ohio GOP lawmakers call to block courts from implementing new abortion amendment
Several Ohio Republican lawmakers are proposing to strip courts of the authority to review cases related to implementing the newly passed Issue 1 abortion amendment. In a statement released T…
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Two things:
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Absolutely double down on this loser position, please, until you're voted the fuck out.
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Good luck. While I haven't combed through the Ohio constitution, I hope the legislative branch can't just remove the judicial, whole or piecemeal. Checks and balances and all that. But if you pull it off at least we can stop pretending this is a functional democracy of any kind, and all we have to sacrifice is Ohio. Maybe it'll wake up a few people who still think there's a middle ground to be found with the GOP.
As an Ohioan, they will not be voted out. The state legislature has gerrymandered both houses to ensure a clear majority. This is why they throw tantrums like this. Their only worry is being primaried from the right. This is despite a constitutional amendment that was supposed to eliminate gerrymandering, but was really engineered by senate president Matt Huffman to be able to be ignored.
Ohio’s best bet is a new anti-gerrymandering amendment likely to be before voters that will completely remove politicians from the process.
Ohio’s best bet is a new anti-gerrymandering amendment likely to be before voters that will completely remove politicians from the process.
I know this was recently cleared to start collecting signatures. Do you know where that's being coordinated or where I might be able to find places I can sign?
I'm proud to say I signed the issue 1 petition and voted for it. Would like to keep the momentum going and do the same with the redistricting proposal.
I don’t know, but I’m sure there will be information soon.
Came here to say #1. It's a loser position, so keep pushing it and see how well that works out in next year's election.
There's also a possibility of a federal lawsuit under the Guarantee clause
The problem is people will still do nothing about it so long as it doesn’t directly affect them.
Politicians have been insanely successful at making people not give a damn about others for a long time now. Unless the Federal democracy is attacked, I doubt people will do much elsewhere.
so long as it doesn't directly affect them
It's kind of insane how we're at the point where this would affect about 50.7% of the population or more, yet rhetoric towards oppressing this group is popular and competitive in the political sphere. What collective delusion do people need to have to think that "oh, If I, or my wife or my friends ever need an abortion, they'll treat it as a special circumstance/exception"???
Because there is no collective social/class consciousness in America. It’s all zero-sum, win at all costs, second place is first loser. You can’t afford to care about the stranger but the idea of safety nets and socialist public policies is demonized constantly as either weakness or deliberate theft.
Everyone here would rather risk hurting themselves than helping someone else at their own expense.
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