Virginia's new Republican attorney general tells SCOTUS the state will not oppose MS abortion law

[BonnieJW]

Source: Business Insider

Here it comes


Virginia's new Republican attorney general has reversed the state's position in a Supreme Court case challenging abortion rights.

The state's new position is that abortion laws should be up to states to decide.

Virginia previously supported abortion rights guaranteed by the landmark ruling, Roe v. Wade.

Virginia's new Republican attorney general Jason Miyares told the Supreme Court that the state will no longer oppose Mississippi's restrictive abortion law, according to a letter sent to the nation's top court on Friday.

Former Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, had signed onto a legal brief in September with 24 state attorneys general urging the Supreme Court to protect the constitutional right to an abortion and strike down Mississippi's law, which seeks to ban the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Citing a "change in Administration," Miyares has "reconsidered" Virginia's previous position on the law, the state's Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson wrote in a letter to Supreme Court.

"Virginia is now of the view that the Constitution is silent on the question of abortion, and that it is therefore up to the people in the several States to determine the legal status and regulatory treatment of abortion," Ferguson wrote.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/virginia-attorney-general-pulls-opposition-abortion-law-supreme-court-2022-1

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I want to know where all the money is going to come from in Virginia to support all these unplanned babies. WIC checks. Welfare. Housing. Watch the economy in my state sink in the four years these monkeys are in charge. By that time, all the repubs will be moaning about all these lazy poor people draining the state of funds.

[Effete Snob]

1. So...

You believe that Republicans should support abortion rights because it is principally a mechanism to prevent rapid growth of the poor population?

[BonnieJW]

6. No

But I believe every child deserves to have enough to eat, should have a safe place to live, clean clothes, the opportunity of a good education, responsible adults to care for them and love them.

That's not going to happen when millions of women are forced to have babies when they are in situations that make it impossible to provide these requirements and the republican run states are not going to step up. I'm old enough to remember Reagan and the "welfare queens".

[underpants]

2. He also fired UVA's counsel who just happens to be working on the Jan. 6 committee

UVA counsel Tim Heaphy was on leave working as the top investigator for the U.S. House panel examining the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

FAIRFAX, Va. — Virginia's new Republican attorney general has fired lawyers for two large public universities, his office said, marking more significant changes by Jason Miyares while ascending to his new job.

Tim Heaphy, counsel for the University of Virginia, and George Mason University counsel Brian Walther have been let go, Miyares spokeswoman Victoria LaCivita told The Washington Post. School counsel within Virginia's public colleges and universities are appointed by the attorney general.

LaCivita said Heaphy's firing had nothing to do with that investigative role. Rather, she said in a statement, Heaphy was a "controversial" hire and Miyares' Democratic predecessor, Mark Herring, had "excluded many qualified internal candidates when he brought in this particular university counsel."

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginias-new-ag-removes-2-lawyers-at-public-universities-associated-press/65-0ab7275c-7aa9-4c0c-96df-28e221b8f5db

[Dawson Leery]

3. This will be the in GOP any state they win.

[rockfordfile]

4. Get out and vote

[Marthe48]

5. I wish things were written in stone

So sick of so many decisions getting tossed back and forth like volley balls. There are humans involved, which i know the f* pukes don't care about.

I'm glad I'm past child-bearing and this makes me glad my kids are nearly there. It is absolutely ridiculous that one set of elected officials can take a stance, only to have it reversed by another set of elected officials. It is someone's worst luck if they are raped during a f* puke reign of terror.

[Karma13612]

8. I hear you.

Obviously there ARE times that we are glad the laws are written with pencils and erasures. But overall, I think there needs to be a LOT more thought and safety checks put into place when reversing ‘rights’ that have been bestowed on the voters. It seems that the republicans and conservative courts have zero problem with reversing rights.

EXcept for gun rights. Those they preserve with all their fire and threat.

[Marthe48]

9. I can see amending laws to improve their intent

but the f* pukes are not doing that. They are like bulls in a china factory.

Laws should be reviewed and refreshed if needed, but destroying rights is entirely different.

[Karma13612]

10. Absolutely agree with you 110%...eom..

[Beausoleil]

7. Next they'll be changing the name of the state to

East West Virginia