So Trump is whining because he doesn’t control the FBI. If only he controlled the FBI he could go after Hillary Clinton and Lock Her Up, for something.
Sad.
So in order to give Trump’s minions something to do they are threatening to go after the ACLU lawyers who helped the pregnant teenage refugee attain a perfectly legal abortion.
I think the issue is that the ACLU attorneys represented their client and helped her get her legal abortion before the Trump Administration could drag the poor girl to the Supreme Court.
In a highly unusual filing reflecting the pre-eminence of abortion politics, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco called out ACLU lawyers representing the girl, identified in court papers as Jane Doe. The document said the girl’s lawyers knew that the Justice Department planned to ask the Supreme Court on Oct. 25 to review a lower court decision saying the 17-year-old had a right to an abortion while in government custody.
The ACLU lawyers had told government lawyers that under abortion laws in Texas, where the girl was detained, the abortion could not be performed until Oct. 26, according to the filing. Instead, the girl ended her pregnancy in the early hours of Oct. 25, before the Justice Department could file a stay request with the Supreme Court.
Of course if the case had gone to SCOTUS Goddess knows how long that would have taken and the young woman may well have been forced to give birth totally against her will.
This administration is so scary on so many levels — it never hurts to remind us all what’s at stake here and that we must continue resisting. If you don’t belong to ACLU, now would be a good time to join and send $$$$$ if you can.
They’re going after a poor pregnant immigrant teen seeking her legal rights. Next maybe it’s you.
Meanwhile they do nothing to prevent Russia from attacking the next election, or for that matter the voter suppression created by the GOP that robs so many of us of our votes. And Congress is busy trying to figure out how to rip off the taxpayers, especially in Blue States, destroy our health care, Social Security, the environment, unions, and civil rights.
Anyway, ACLU is fighting back of course,
ACLU Legal Director David Cole said in a statement the government’s charges were “baseless.”
“This administration has gone to astounding lengths to block this young woman from getting an abortion,” Cole said. “Now, because they were unable to stop her, they are raising baseless questions about our conduct. Our lawyers acted in the best interest of our client and in full compliance with the court orders and federal and Texas law. That government lawyers failed to seek judicial review quickly enough is their fault, not ours.”
It’s stunning that the ACLU lawyers were supposed to damage their client in order to help the Trump Administration trample her civil rights.
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