Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges of their power to interpret an abortion rights amendment after voters opted to enshrine those rights in the state’s constitution this week.
Republican state Reps. Jennifer Gross, Bill Dean, Melanie Miller and Beth Lear said in a news release Thursday that they’ll push to have the Legislature, not the courts, make any decisions about the amendment passed Tuesday.
“To prevent mischief by pro-abortion courts with Issue 1, Ohio legislators will consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary over this ambiguous ballot initiative,” said the mix of fairly new and veteran lawmakers who are all vice-chairs of various House committees. “The Ohio legislature alone will consider what, if any, modifications to make to existing laws based on public hearings and input from legal experts on both sides.”
It’s the latest development in the struggle over abortion rights between the Republican-dominated Legislature and the majority of the voters, who passed the amendment by a margin of 57% to 43%.
"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” ― David Frum
Since the GOP couldn’t win the vote and shoot down this state constitutional amendment, they’re just going to skull fuck democracy right in an eye socket and do whatever they want anyway.
Your daily reminder that “States rights” were never an actual ideological point. It’s just a euphemism.
“ambiguous” ballot initiative? how about Keep Your Sleazy Hands Out Our Wombs, is that more clear?
These fuckers still think of women as objects to be owned rather than people. And they want everyone else to believe that too.
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It’s pretty ambiguous. Needs the “or we will fucking shoot you” it is Ohio after all
“Maybe we should look in the mirror and rethink our policies? No… its the voters who are wrong.”
Fucking fascists
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Cool, the GOP gave the short sighted, single issue politicians power, and now those idiots will make sure to keep this gop-vote-killing issue at the front of everyone’s mind going into a national election.
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Tell me that you don’t know how the legal system works without telling me…
It’s a double win for the wingnuts, they get to fundraise on the eventual lawsuit and again against “activist judges.”
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Unfortunately in the state of Ohio they can do it. Like, it is actually in the laws. My wife was looking into it when she heard it because she didn’t believe it either. This state is such trash.
I can’t believe this reality.
Have the last few decades not prepared you for this bullshit?
I remember George Bush’s Brown Shirts after 9/11. Bullying and howling down anybody who opposed the Iraq war or their conservative agenda.
They went silent after the disaster of his presidency and then became the Tea Party and then MAGA.
