Texas AG Threatens Seattle Hospital With Jail Unless It Provides Trans Patient Data
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Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent a civil investigative demand to Seattle Children's Hospital, demanding data on all Texas patients traveling for care, despite having no jurisdiction there.

Excerpts:

“Seattle responded to the request by filing a lawsuit in Travis County, stating they cannot comply because Texas has no jurisdiction in Washington State, and no care was provided by the hospital in Texas. They also point out that the Dormant Commerce Clause, protected by the United States Constitution, “protects the right to interstate travel, including to obtain healthcare services.” By targeting out-of-state hospitals for enforcement of laws that only apply within the jurisdiction of Texas, they “discriminate against healthcare based on an interstate element,” violating constitutional protections, according to the legal filing. Lastly, Seattle Children’s Hospital cannot comply due to a shield law passed by Washington State. This law bars the hospital from providing any patient data and from responding to subpoenas pursuant to “protected healthcare services” obtained within the jurisdiction of Washington. Protected healthcare services include abortion, reproductive care, and gender-affirming care.”

“This case promises to be extraordinarily complex. Seattle Children’s Hospital is challenging the jurisdiction of the demands directly in a Texas state court. Regardless of what the local court decides, the claims are likely to go to the Texas Supreme Court. Given that the claims also have a time limit on them and that appeals in Texas automatically favor the attorney general due to an automatic lifting of stays in the state, Seattle Children’s Hospital workers and providers for trans patients from Texas could be under legal jeopardy. Ultimately, the case presents questions of conflicting state laws and regulation of conduct across state lines, and the implications of those laws could be dire for abortion and trans care nationwide.”

  • AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world
    547·
    10 months ago

    But the Republicans are the ones who put in the time and effort while the left is smoking doobies, playing their bongos, and masturbating.

    #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    It takes more than having a majority.

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    edit: The comment above this is literally hinting at violence.

    Organizing around issues and engaging in direct action as well as political action is a good first step before we start plotting how to “disappear” people and wage war.

    • FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world
      241·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, it’s just billionaire funding, not gumption.

      Left is king of grassroots movements that go nowhere because they can’t get funded while the right has daddy koch and murdock making it rain all the way down to altright and neonazi youtubers.

      But call me a hippie conspiracy theorist and move on with your day, because you’re obviously not too bright.

      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
        119·
        10 months ago

        Ah the ad hominem attack, the bread and butter of people who have a half-formed argument. The signal of a weak argument dressed in forceful garb.

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
          15·
          10 months ago

          Ah the fallacy fallacy, the bread and butter of people who are incapable of making any argument to support their beliefs, leading one to believe they can’t logically explain their position because they didn’t logically arrive at it.

          Calling out the ad hominem and dismissing it is all well and good, but they had other actual arguments in their post as well. Using the ad hominem at the end as an excuse to run away, claim victory, and commit some ad hominem of your own is just pathetic. If you’re going to call out fallacies I expect you to be better than that.

          • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
            11·
            10 months ago

            You expect me to be better than that?

            All you did up above was exactly what you accused me of doing. I pointed out a fallacy (what were the other arguments exactly? Koch/Nazi? Yeah I didn’t mention them because the fallacy was the strongest part of their comment) and you created a false situation (that I “ran away” from something or other) and called that an ad hominem. Objectively incorrect.

            Maybe a primer on Aristotelian logic might help you out… Unless of course you’d rather continue to dribble urine down your pant leg and present it proudly as a comment worth reading.

            • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
              1·
              10 months ago

              All you did up above was exactly what you accused me of doing.

              All you had was a long winded ad hominem.

              called that an ad hominem. Objectively incorrect.

              If you had any actual points I missed please point them out.

              Unless of course you’d rather continue to dribble urine down your pant leg and present it proudly as a comment worth reading.

              If you’re going to spend 2 days coming up with a response you’re going to have to do better than that. You’ve once again provided nothing of value to the discussion, you’ve just flailed around trying to insult me and even failed at that.

    • chocosoldier@lemmy.ml
      65·
      10 months ago

      This. I live in a “liberal” place and people look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them what the GOP is up to in the South. Sometimes they even laugh. Libs think we’re as ridiculous and safe to disregard as the MAGAs do. A genocide is coming and libs have their heads in the sand about it. Voting will not save us.

      • AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world
        211·
        10 months ago

        As a straight, white man, I don’t sweat it personally. I’ll be the last one thrown into a camp.

        But the people who are more at risk need to get practical with their planning. Community organizing is a great place to start. And I’m not taking violence off the table if it’s in self-defense. But fantasizing online about taking up arms against the christo-fascists while skipping the planning stage and training is just going to get a lot of femboys raped and killed.

        • andros_rex@lemmy.world
          6·
          10 months ago

          If a group of queer folks organized in my home state, that would help the GOP make their lists. If we got violent in self defense, they would kill and jail us. I used to be more of an activist, but it’s fucking impossible to get a job without scrubbing every trace of your transition from the internet.

          • AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world
            17·
            10 months ago

            Then scrub your fucking transition. I’ve done a decent job of scrambling my online identity so that it appears more like noise than signal. I get junkmail addressed to burner jokenames. And I’m a straight, white male. I just like my privacy.

            Nothing is going to be handed to you. Keep a low profile and organize among people you trust. This isn’t a fucking game. They want to kill you (probably rape you first), and you need to avoid that.

            • andros_rex@lemmy.world
              7·
              10 months ago

              Do you do any community organizing yourself or do you just lecture queer folks on how to do it on the internet? I know “nothing is going to be handed to” me, I’m a trans person in a state where I don’t legally exist.

              • AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world
                17·
                10 months ago

                Currently, I bankroll and organize a group of ESL teachers to teach English and the basics of the USCIS citizenship test to immigrants. Is that community organizing?

                I’ve done other work around labor and anti-war over the years.

                Fetish stuff isn’t my bag, but I know a bunch of repressed Republican guys who can’t wait to get their big, meaty paws on a few femboys.