The Political Thread

[Samoa Looch]

JD Vance's comment (I imagine): "This is why judges shouldn't be allowed to interfere with Presidential executive orders!"

 

[Grim]

 

[Chris]

Texas Judge Fines New York Doctor and Orders Her to Stop Sending Abortion Pills to Texas

It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills to states with bans.

www.nytimes.com

In a case that could have major implications for abortion access in the United States, a Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to stop prescribing and sending abortion pills to patients in Texas and to pay a penalty of more than $100,000 for providing the medication to one woman.

The case is widely expected to reach the Supreme Court and become a pivotal test in the escalating battle between states that ban abortion and states that support abortion rights. It essentially pits Texas, which has a near-total abortion ban, against New York, which has a “telemedicine abortion shield law” intended to protect abortion providers who send medications to patients in other states.

These shield laws have become a key abortion rights strategy since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion in 2022. The laws, enacted in eight states so far, stipulate that officials and agencies will not cooperate with civil suits, prosecutions or other legal actions filed against health care providers who prescribe and send abortion medication to patients in other states.

 

[Samoa Looch]

 

[Samoa Looch]

Also

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Racist as hell this .

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Also

Another homophobic shit head

 

[Chris]

Vance lectures European officials on free speech, illegal migration in security conference remarks

Vice President JD Vance has lectured European officials on free speech and illegal migration on the continent.

apnews.com

Vice President JD Vance lectured European officials on free speech and illegal migration on the continent during his remarks Friday before the Munich Security Conference, warning elected officials that they risk losing public support if they don’t quickly change course.

“If you’re running in fear of your own voters there’s nothing America can do for you,” the vice president said.

Vance’s speech, and his passing mention of the 3-year-old Russia-Ukraine conflict, came at a time of intense concern and uncertainty over the Trump administration’s foreign policy.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

I see Project 2025 has started FFS

 

[Chris]

Trump Considers Paving Grass at White House Rose Garden to Match Mar-a-Lago

The president has been discussing plans to rip up the grass in one of the White House’s most iconic locations and put in a hard surface to serve as a patio like the one at his Florida home and club.

www.nytimes.com

President Trump has been busy upending the federal government, reorienting U.S. foreign policy, threatening trade wars and winning confirmation for his Cabinet choices.

But he has managed to find time for a project closer to home: He has told associates that he wants to rip up the grass in the Rose Garden, one of the White House’s most iconic and meticulously maintained spots, and replace it with a hard surface to resemble a patio like the one he has at Mar-a-Lago.

Designers have drafted options for how to remake the surface of the Rose Garden, which sits just outside the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room. Mr. Trump has discussed whether it should be limestone or an easily interchangeable hard surface, with the possibility of installing hardwood floors for dancing, according to four people briefed on the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

 

[Mitch Buchannon]

 

[Chris]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/14/nyregion/eric-adams-charges-doj

Federal prosecutors in Washington asked a judge to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York on Friday, after several of their colleagues resigned rather than heed an order to drop the case.

Among those who resigned was Danielle R. Sassoon, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, who quit after she told the attorney general that she would not obey an order that had no “valid basis,” and accused Mr. Adams’s lawyers of negotiating for a dismissal in exchange for the mayor’s help with President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor on the investigation, also resigned in a scathing letter to Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general. In the letter, Mr. Scotten wrote that any federal prosecutor “would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials.”

 

[Professor Booty]

 

[Grim]

Yikes

 

[Professor Booty]

Yikes

No wonder TK threw her in the