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Behind the Texas Abortion Law, a Persevering Conservative Lawyer
Jonathan Mitchell has never had a high profile in the anti-abortion movement, but he developed and promoted the legal approach that has flummoxed the courts and enraged abortion rights supporters.Jonathan F. Mitchell grew increasingly dismayed as he read the Supreme Courts decision in June 2016 striking down major portions of a Texas anti-abortion bill he had helped write.
Not only had the court gutted the legislation, which Mr. Mitchell had quietly worked on a few years earlier as the Texas state governments top appeals court lawyer, but it also had called out his attempt to structure the law in a way that would prevent judicial action to block it, essentially saying: nice try.
We reject Texas invitation to pave the way for legislatures to immunize their statutes from a general review of their constitutionality, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote in the majoritys opinion.
For Mr. Mitchell, a onetime clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, the decision was a stinging rebuke, and he vowed that if he ever had the chance to help develop another anti-abortion law, he would ensure it survived at the Supreme Court.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/politics/texas-abortion-lawyer-jonathan-mitchell.html
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Behind the Texas Abortion Law, a Persevering Conservative Lawyer (Original Post)
Zorro
Sep 2021
OP
It's a shame you couldn't put his talents to doing something for humanity instead of against us
Walleye
Sep 2021
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This looks like the kind of creep caught diddling little kids. Fucker. What is he? 19?
CurtEastPoint
Sep 2021
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Walleye
(31,046 posts)1. It's a shame you couldn't put his talents to doing something for humanity instead of against us
CurtEastPoint
(18,663 posts)2. This looks like the kind of creep caught diddling little kids. Fucker. What is he? 19?
Polly Hennessey
(6,804 posts)3. Looks like Pee Wee Herman's cousin.
Pas-de-Calais
(9,909 posts)4. Did he really use the law or circumvent it
Making vigilantes out of normal citizens?