Texas has sued a New York official for refusing to take action against an abortion provider, teeing up a state-versus-state battle that is widely expected to end up before the US supreme court.
Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, has petitioned the New York state supreme court to order a county clerk to enforce a fine against Dr Margaret Carpenter, a New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines.
Paxton accused Carpenter last year of mailing abortion pills to a Texas woman in defiance of Texas’s ban on virtually all abortions. After Carpenter failed to show up in a Texas court, a judge ordered her to pay more than $100,000 in penalties.
But the acting Ulster county clerk, Taylor Bruck, in New York has twice rejected Paxton’s efforts to levy that fine. Under New York’s “shield law”, state law enforcement officials are blocked from complying with out-of-state prosecutions against abortion providers who ship pills to patients, even if those patients are located outside New York state.
Civil War is coming. Unless der Trumpreich is ended.-greenman
Whatta dimwit! the SCOTUS should toss this like yesterday's garbage
It was loud enough to sound like thunder rolling across the valley. Too bad no GOP were there to catch it. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
on July 29, 2025, 3:07 pm
