Fourteen Republican members of the state House of Representatives have pledged to introduce bills in the coming legislative session that would bar corporations from doing business in Texas if they pay for abortions in states where the procedure is legal.
This would explicitly prevent firms from offering employees access to abortion-related care through health insurance benefits. It would also expose executives to criminal prosecution under pre-Roe anti-abortion laws the Legislature never repealed, the legislators say.
Their proposal highlights how the end of abortion would lead to a new phase in — not the end of — the fight in Texas over the procedure. The lawmakers pushing for the business rules have signaled that they plan to act aggressively in the next legislative session. But it remains to be seen if they’ll be able to get a majority on their side.
Speedway General Manager Lisa Plessinger compared the convoy to "like when your mother-in-law comes to visit and decides to stay.”
This is a violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause.
They say they are going to sue DC because the city had the audacity to close exits off of the Beltway and other area highways, not allowing the trucks to get off, and limited the potential for mayhem.
I don’t think the Beltway is actually in DC.
Ummm, they were the ones who closed/blocked the exits. Assholes.
I got caught up in that traffic shit one day because of those numb nuts.
“The truckers are suing D.C., claiming police violated their First Amendment rights by blocking certain highway exits into the District.”
'Not doing circles': Trucker convoy plans Thursday 'ambush' in DC, report says | WJLA.
They parked their trucks on exits. I saw them.
Assholes. Lying assholes.
What didn’t they say that they wanted to?
A few hundred feet of it is, part of the Wilson Bridge. Maybe they’re trying to use that as a technicality?
But for that to hold up in court, I believe they should have actually tried exiting there… There’s still time though.
Exiting right there would have been A-OK in my book!
They don’t care and the current SCOTUS will give them a pass. If the nation survives the next few years, it will be a miracle.
Canada is already preparing for the collapse of the US.
I live 40 miles from Canada on purpose.
It’s just under a 6 hour drive for me.
“CNN Projection: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wins GOP primary for her seat in Georgia’s 14th District”
There is no god.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/fact-check-walker-university-of-georgia-graduated/index.html
In December, Walker’s campaign website falsely claimed that he had graduated from the University of Georgia, the school he left after his junior season to play professionally. (Walker’s campaign deleted the claim after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution inquired about it.) In April, CNN’s KFile team revealed that Walker himself had made the false graduation claim for years – and that Walker had even asserted that he graduated in the top 1% of his University of Georgia class.
But when Walker was challenged about his graduation deception in an interview last week with FOX 5 Atlanta anchor Russ Spencer, Walker declared he had never once said he graduated from the University of Georgia
90 percent of Americans want Congress to pass a background check bill, which the House already has but Senate Republicans refuse to allow. Eliminating the 60-vote threshold in the filibuster might allow that legislation to pass, as it almost did under President Barack Obama, with 54 votes.
“People at home all across America are just, they’re scared,” Sinema added, suggesting that is no reason to make changes to the way the Senate works, or to pass gun control legislation. “They want us to do something.”
Sinema committed to no action other than “to start having conversations again with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to determine whether or not there’s something we can actually do to help increase safety and protect kids across the country.”
The House has already passed multiple bills the Senate could take up and pass – or at least get Senators on the record.
Sen. Sinema’s reluctance to do anything substantive stands in clear contrast to her Arizoan Democratic colleague in the House. U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego , long rumored to be a potential primary opponent when Sinema is up for re-election, on Tuesday night blasted Sinema and others, like “baby killer” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), standing in the way of gun control.
Hey Kyrsten…
If she admits she’s completely ineffectual- she should quit.
