Legislature v. Judiciary: Whose Body of Laws Are These Exactly?

 The Guardian reports:

Abortion rights advocates are bracing to resist a flurry of initiatives from Florida to North Dakota in the wake of the new Texas law, the most extreme in the US, which the conservative majority on the supreme court refused to block.

On Wednesday, the law went into effect in Texas, banning abortion past six weeks of a pregnancy, including for victims of incest or rape, and giving any private citizen the option to sue someone providing an abortion or anyone even believed to be peripherally assisting someone to get an abortion.

Within a day of the law going into effect, six other states – North Dakota, Mississippi, Indiana, Florida, South Dakota and Arkansas – have said they are looking to adopt a similar ban, according to numerous reports.

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In other legal news:

Let me go on record, as a licensed attorney, that the charges against former Glynn County prosecutor Jackie Johnson in Georgia are a big-time overreach.  The people responded to her body of work, in choosing not to re-elect her to that job last November.  She immediately recognized her conflict of interest and asked another prosecutor's office to take over the investigation.  She did not return phone calls asking for her legal advice.

By overcharging here, in trying to "get" Ms. Johnson, you make a mockery of the legal system. Plus, when she "gets off" -- as she will, as there is no lawful basis to find that she committed a crime in her actions as reported -- it will only anger the mob calling for "justice" and getting innocent additional players charged, when legally, those charges have no hope of turning into convictions.

Leave the former prosecutor alone.  She did nothing wrong, and the true injustice is in locking men up without bond -- who have no history of fleeing criminal charges -- as extracurricular justice just because it pacifies the mob anger...

 

*No connection to Glynn County.  I just read, and legally, must speak up on this one, when all the cheerleaders are perverting justice and cheapening the system.