States are ignoring federal law. Sheriffs are ignoring state laws, and now this. It appears we have reached a point in America where the people in power will abide by the law...or not, depending on what they believe.
This is extremely dangerous to our country.
When the SCOTUS decided on Roe versus Wade, they made a grievous miscalculation. They assumed a right that was not in the Constitution, and we have been fighting over it ever since. And every fight erodes our confidence in our laws and our legal system. This is why the supreme court picks have become so important, because the law isn't important anymore. Its what the person who holds the position believes what the law means.
When women got the right to vote, it was done so Constitutionally. There would be no argument. Now, the court makes up the law as they see fit.
It will be the death of our country.
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Mark
This is extremely dangerous to our country.
When the SCOTUS decided on Roe versus Wade, they made a grievous miscalculation. They assumed a right that was not in the Constitution, and we have been fighting over it ever since. And every fight erodes our confidence in our laws and our legal system. This is why the supreme court picks have become so important, because the law isn't important anymore. Its what the person who holds the position believes what the law means.
When women got the right to vote, it was done so Constitutionally. There would be no argument. Now, the court makes up the law as they see fit.
It will be the death of our country.
The facts at first seem unambiguous: A motorist is caught with 5 pounds of methamphetamines, a Schedule II controlled substance under Utah’s strict drug laws.
But Sim Gill, Salt Lake County’s district attorney, would decline to pursue such a hypothetical case if he discovered that the search had been unlawful — conducted without a warrant or in the absence of a reasonable suspicion that a traffic law had been breached.
Prosecutors should apply similar discretion, Gill argues, and refuse to bring charges under a wave of new abortion restrictions that plainly contradict Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s 1973 verdict that a woman has a constitutional right to choose whether to bear a child.
“We do this all the time, deciding that we have an ethical duty not to prosecute a case because it would be in violation of a constitutional protection afforded to citizens,†Gill, a Democrat, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “What’s new here is that this is an area, abortion, that we typically don’t find ourselves in, because the procedure has not been criminalized like this in recent history.â€
Now that the question has been decisively transformed into one of criminal law — in his state and others that have banned abortion weeks before the viability threshold set forth in Roe — it’s up to prosecutors to “stand up for institutional integrity in these charged times,†Gill said.
“We cannot put people in jail for this,†he maintained.
But Sim Gill, Salt Lake County’s district attorney, would decline to pursue such a hypothetical case if he discovered that the search had been unlawful — conducted without a warrant or in the absence of a reasonable suspicion that a traffic law had been breached.
Prosecutors should apply similar discretion, Gill argues, and refuse to bring charges under a wave of new abortion restrictions that plainly contradict Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s 1973 verdict that a woman has a constitutional right to choose whether to bear a child.
“We do this all the time, deciding that we have an ethical duty not to prosecute a case because it would be in violation of a constitutional protection afforded to citizens,†Gill, a Democrat, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “What’s new here is that this is an area, abortion, that we typically don’t find ourselves in, because the procedure has not been criminalized like this in recent history.â€
Now that the question has been decisively transformed into one of criminal law — in his state and others that have banned abortion weeks before the viability threshold set forth in Roe — it’s up to prosecutors to “stand up for institutional integrity in these charged times,†Gill said.
“We cannot put people in jail for this,†he maintained.
Mark
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