Pitting UltraVires

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Just to help people out, Tired_and_Cranky doesn’t explicitly call UV out, or even link to UV’s post, but for those interested, the relevant 3-year old comment from UV is about as damming as described:

Can a state punish you for doing something that is legal in another state but not in their state?

This is the rule: There was a West Virginia case where a man abducted his girlfriend from her workplace in West Virginia and transported her to Ohio where he raped her. West Virginia ruled it had jurisdiction to prosecute the rape (clearly it had jurisdiction for kidnapping) because a substantial amount of an element of the crime: fear or forcible compulsion, occurred in the State of West Virginia. As far as a law against eyebrow plucking, it would be difficult for a state to argue that out …

ETA: Good work, team!