Some states already had the law on the books and didn’t need to create one, but good on Kansas.
Kansas is not that bad, I liked living there and I particularly liked Wichita.
Kansas had the law on the books. The vote was on a constitutional amendment that would have severely restricted abortion, much like the laws that Texas and others have passed.
Kansas could be a lot worse (there’s damning with faint praise). Dem governor who gets some stuff done in the face of a crazed legislature, abortion ban failed in statewide vote.
Living in formerly purple Missouri, it is embarrassing to contemplate. My daughter-in-law (MO born and raised), refuses to contemplate leaving KS for MO to raise her daughter under their current respective governments.
Red state brain drain.
Oh, certainly. We have absolute idiots in charge of both houses of the legislature, who would have ramrodded a whole bunch RW BS were it not for Governor Kelly. And Kris Kobach is our AG.
I’ve seen that article, but it makes a pretty weak case that it’s specifically conservative state policies that are leading college-educated workers to leave red states (as opposed to just not wanting to live in Middle-of-Nowhere, Idaho). And the article notes that Texas continues to import more college-educated workers than leave the state.
NYT gift link. The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against Ms. Cox… Claims there was not enough evidence that her life or health were in danger. There are no words. If I were a fertile female the screen door would be flapping in the wind and speed limits would be being exceeded getting the hell out of Texas.
Bizarrely when I lived in KC, the right wing nuts were in Kansas. They thought Bob Dole was not “conservative” enough.
Related, doctors are leaving some of these same states due to abortion laws. This is from my area:
They’re still here. The difference now is that Missouri has gone off the RW deep end.
I’ll post this here as this thread seems to have superseded the Screw Greg Abbott thread.
Galveston County is moving forward with its 2024 election using district maps that multiple courts have ruled violate the Voting Rights Act by denying Black and Latino voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a district court judge who tried to enforce previous maps on the county while the case works its way through the legal circuit. The county will proceed barring a last-minute intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Mark Gaber, senior director for redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center, which represents one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
The maps dismantle the district represented by Commissioner Stephen Holmes, all but ensuring his defeat in 2024. Holmes, who is Black, represents the only district in the county in which a majority of residents are people of color.
…“We are pleased and encouraged that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 11-6 today to stay the District Court’s order imposing Map 1 on Galveston County,” County Judge Mark Henry said in a statement. “The Fifth Circuit correctly decided that changing election maps too close to an election would confuse voters.”
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My bold.
Ri-i-i-ight. 
I have kin folk in Kern and Madeira counties . I counted more Trump signs in the drive from Fresno to Bakersfield the last time I was there in 2017 than I have seen since then in Texas too
You all may know I run the DeathPool. I once had Kris Kobach on a list, along with a number of others, like Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts.
Henceforth to be known as the “She’s Not Dead Yet” decision.
You can add Ty Masterson and Dan Hawkins to that list!
Don’t know who those guys are, but I’m curious to know if your suggestion that they be added to the list is aspirational.
Sorry, sort of inside joke to Kansans. Masterson is senate president and Hawkins is house speaker in Kansas. Both are genuine GOP assholes.
Trae Crowder, AKA liberal Redneck, calls Texas Howdy Arabia, but then goes on to point out that Saudi Arabia allows for abortions for medical reasons.
Ted Cruz – who’s up for reelection next year – has gone completely silent on the Kate Cox saga. It has to be terrifying for Republicans that this is happening to a white, middle-class, suburban mother. Might get the other suburban soccer moms thinkin’ about what a zealous anti-abortion regime means for them, their daughters and their neighbors.
Yeah, the TX Supreme Court didn’t do the GOP any favors, even if they thought they were.
Would have been better off strategically just staying out of it or letting the lower court decision stand to give the fig leaf pretense that medical exemptions actually existed while only really making it available to the white, wealthy suburbanites