raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 12:59 am Paywalled. Bet there are some juicy ones in there he is hiding.
https:// twitter.com/johnniemo/status/1522593060261089281John C. Moritz @JohnnieMo wrote: The governor's office says letters from trade groups, political leaders and perhaps others that have weighed in on the trucking slowdown ordered by @GovAbbott should be kept secret from the public. An AG opinion has been requested on the question. #txlege
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Terrorism?
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Yep. The terrorism, economic and otherwise, that Abbott and friends do.
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G. Gordon Liddy and J. Edgar Hoover both want a word...
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A group of Texas Democrats is urging the Biden admin to probe whether their state misused federal COVID relief funds, after Greg Abbott relied on that pandemic relief to pay for his crackdown on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Top Texas Court Allows Abuse Inquiries of Parents of Transgender Children
But the court said Gov. Greg Abbott did not have the authority to order such investigations, acknowledging they could cause “irreparable harm.”
By J. David Goodman
May 13, 2022 Updated 12:25 p.m. ET
HOUSTON — The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that investigations of parents with transgender children for possible child abuse could continue, after an emergency appeal by state officials including Gov. Greg Abbott. The ruling reversed an appeals court decision that had temporarily halted the inquiries statewide.
But the court said that officials could not resume the investigation into the plaintiffs that had brought the lawsuit, a family and a doctor, acknowledging that the inquiry would cause “irreparable harm” and leaving in place the injunction as their case proceeds to trial.
In its 12-page opinion, the court found that the appeals court had “abused its discretion” in issuing a statewide order at this point in the legal process.
The investigations began in February after Mr. Abbott ordered state officials to consider certain medically accepted treatments for transgender youth to be abuse, including hormones or puberty-suppressing drugs.
The ruling on Friday came in response to a legal challenge brought by the parents of a 16-year-old transgender girl. The family was among the first to be investigated by the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services under Mr. Abbott’s order. Several other investigations have since come to light.
In March, a district judge, Amy Clark Meachum in Travis County, ordered all such investigations to stop, pending a trial. She found that the governor’s order had been improperly adopted and violated the State Constitution. An appeals court allowed the temporary injunction to remain in place.
Mr. Abbott, along with the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, brought the case to the Texas Supreme Court, arguing that the investigations, on their own, were not an “injury” and that the district court had overstepped its authority in preventing them. All nine members of the state’s highest court are Republican; five were appointed by Mr. Abbott.
The court found that Mr. Abbott and Mr. Paxton could not in fact require certain kinds of investigations by the Department of Family and Protective Services, finding that the agency had discretion over how it conducts its abuse inquiries. “Neither the Governor nor the Attorney General has statutory authority to directly control” the department’s investigatory decisions, wrote Justice Jimmy Blacklock, who was appointed by Mr. Abbott in 2018.
“Just as the governor lacks authority to issue a binding ‘directive’ to DFPS, the court of appeals lacks authority to afford statewide relief to nonparties,” wrote Justice Blacklock.
The appeals court will now consider arguments from state officials and the plaintiffs over Judge Meachum’s decision. A trial, originally scheduled for July, is now on hold pending those arguments.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs were encouraged by aspects of the ruling. “The court rejected the state’s arguments to get rid of the case entirely,” said Karen Loewy, senior counsel at Lambda Legal, which represented the plaintiffs along with the American Civil Liberties Union.
The court made clear, she said, that while statewide investigations by the protective services agency could resume, “any similar investigation” to the one into her clients “would cause the same irreparable harm” and that “the appropriate thing to do would be to exercise the discretion that they had before the governor got involved.”
It was not clear whether the ruling would result in an immediate resumption of investigations. A spokeswoman for Mr. Abbott did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/us/t ... ldren.html
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I can't vouch for the veracity of this post, seems unlikely or exaggerated to me. But who knows?
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Questionable, but believable.
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We'll see if the encounter was recorded.
Meanwhile....
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Greg Abbott is booed as he arrives at the memorial outside Uvalde Elementary. From
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Well we don't want to politicize it.
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Abbott can't even get his paid campaign workers to shill for him.
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She was quickly fired.
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Welcome to AbbottLand, where your health providers are required to turn you into the police.
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status ... 3279367174
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status ... 3279367174
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC wrote: NEW: A 16-year-old boy tried to kill himself after Greg Abbott ordered child abuse investigations of all parents of trans youth in Texas. He was admitted to a psychiatric facility— the staff then turned his parents in for child abuse for him being trans, per @texastribune.
“An investigator from [Texas protective services] visited the family’s home and, according to the lawsuit, said that the psychiatric facility had reported the family for child abuse.
The family remains under investigation.”
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I'm sorry but isn't that a real violation of the kid's HIPPA thingy rights?
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Depends on how you contort the law. HIPPA, as I understand it (my training is WAY out of date and only half remembered), protected health information is not protected if a crime is involved. So if TX decides that having trans kids is a crime, then HIPPA allows doctors who are so inclined to turn the family in.
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I have a bunch of old National Geographics I bought cheap from the library bookstore. For the most part, the articles don't become outdated. Case in point, a 10 year old magazine I'm reading now has an article about brains and that they aren't gender-neutral. Just like reproductive organs, your brain can be male or female and sometimes a female brain ends up in a body with a penis.
There's nothing political in the article, strictly science and how doctors, therapists and patients deal with the issue above. If anyone is interested, I'll can post the issue date.
There's nothing political in the article, strictly science and how doctors, therapists and patients deal with the issue above. If anyone is interested, I'll can post the issue date.
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Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
Breaking:
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas judge blocks state from investigating families of transgender children for abuse over gender-confirming care.
Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
I found a good picture to illustrate today's GOP
Greg Abbott with the J6 leader of the Proud Boys, Joe Biggs. Pretty telling
Btw - the source of this picture is Joe Biggs' own Telegram account, which I happened to have. It was a family affair at the time
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These days, that's probably a plus for Abbott.
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Proud Boys are a national street gang endorsed by a certain party.