These suits were ALL brought by the DoJ — and in several cases, by Ron Reagan’s DoJ.

But this evening Paul Mirengoff would tell us that the DoJ cannot bring suit against Texas — for denying liberty interests, and equal protection — to adult women who may only have known they were pregnant for 16 days.

[The notion that the Texas abomination is insulated, because it is private citizens who pursue people seeking abortions is still “under color of law” in the words of 18 U.S.C. § 242: Deprivation of rights under color of law.] He pretends that the fundamental privacy and liberty interests at stake are trivial compared to being able to go to a public school of equal standing, as a White- or Black- person (in the linked case in 1983, in Alabama — brought by Saint Ronnie’s DoJ).

Paul M. sniffs that “whatever one thinks of the Texas law” — we have no right to complain.

Poppycock.

We — the people of the other 49 states — including the DoJ… have clear civil rights act standing to enjoin the lawless abridging of fundamental womens’ rights — rights won under Roe v. Wade now almost a half-century ago.

Do not let these dishonest legal charlatans fool you: on the one hand, they’ll applaud a single Texas judge trying to re-write the federal immigration schema as though Texas was a separate nation (to keep brown people out!), all the while saying the federal government cannot do what JFK did — to end segregation in public schooling, in Little Rock, and in Birmingham — in sum, to protect human rights.

What an ironic crock of slop.

Out.