2y ago

Texas AG Threatens Seattle Hospital With Jail Unless It Provides Trans Patient Data

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2y ago

Texas AG Threatens Seattle Hospital With Jail Unless It Provides Trans Patient Data

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2y ago

Texas AG Threatens Seattle Hospital With Jail Unless It Provides Trans Patient Data

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This is literally what the civil war was fought over. Southern states making shitty laws and attempting to enforce them over the will of northern states. The south lost the first time, and they’ll lose again.
- I was raised not far from where William T Sherman was born.
  I feel a strong urge for southern BBQ and a nice stroll coming on. I might go visit the sea.
The hospital won't fit in the jail, its a much bigger building.
- Big if true
- but.... if they build prisons and jails like they do high school football stadiums.......
  
  Then maybe we could get my private prison friends and your construction contractor friends and put all this tax money in each other's pockets.
  On a real note, if you haven't yet, check in with your local elections and always make sure to vote in them. Republicans usually have better turn out in them and they are key to diminishing the power these chucklefucks wield.
He's not even thinking this through to a logical end. If this is legal (and I really doubt it is) wouldn't that mean that Texans can be sued by anyone in a state with more restrictive gun laws if a gun sold in Texas ended up being used in a crime elsewhere? What about training? Ammunition?
What a buffoon.
- Hell, in some states you could make the argument that denying gender affirming care is denying medically necessary treatment.
  State of Washington should counter sue Texas hospitals for their failure to provide adequate and fair treatment.
  
  you could make the argument that denying gender affirming care is denying medically necessary treatment.
  Because it is.
  
  Well, now I know what to ask from Santa for Christmas.
- This isn’t about logic, it’s about posturing for their base.
  
  If these pricks had logic and reasoning then they wouldn't be conservatives.
Attorney's for the hospital have not been available for comment, as they're still recovering from the laughter.
- Luckily it's a hospital and laughter is the best medicine, so they are not expected to be out of action for long.
Seattle should pass a law that requires Houston residents pay property tax to Seattle and then seize homes with unpaid taxes and sell them to recoop any unpaid taxes.
Why not?
Suing women who need life saving abortions, taking the sitting president off of the state's ballot, suing hospitals to persecute trans people...
This is a busy little fucker.
- How does he even find time for securities fraud?!
- I believe the ballot thing was Dan Patrick, the lieutenant Governor and another one of our all around ~~terrible~~ swell ~~lizard people~~ human beings.
TX = midling 20% average participation by youth Vote. Anything which doesn't directly address that is blowing smoke, so just ignore that an 8-12 point increase in that number would mean no more R State wide.
Texas showing once again that they're for state sovereignty, smaller government and individual freedoms.
Maybe the Texas AG should focus on why they keep charging grade schoolers for felonies and arresting them without a guardian present because they're supposedly all about 'protecting the children', right?
Good luck with that, Magoo
I'm starting to think that the US may need to invade Texas.
Refer to "Arkell v Pressdram" is the only reasonable response to the indicted fraudster Ken Paxton.
Redact the entire report and fax it to his office as fully black pages.
What a fucking loser.
Bold move for someone whose residence is in the public record.
How does this work in the US? Can he arrest the doctors / directors if they ever go to Texas?
There's going to come a point where I just make actionable threats in plain text as a first response, and the threshold where it would feel morally justified may have already passed.
And here we are. And nobody is willing to stop it
- Seattle has laws that make Paxton's request illegal.
  
  I wonder if you can extradite the ag
  
  Washington State as a whole does. I love my state.

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