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DOJ reminds TX both abortions & gun rights are Constitutionally protected | DOJ FOREWARNS TEXAS... CHALLENGE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 
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948 views 5 upvotes Made by Treaclemier 3 years ago in politics
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1 up, 3y,
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Kudos to Garland for having the courage to deliver a message to Texas that if they want to scheme and undermine others' Constitutional rights simply because they don't agree with such and/or due to political self preservation, they can't complain when others enact laws that take away their own Constitutional rights to own guns.
2 ups, 3y,
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Cool, where in the Constitution does it say abortion must be legal? Be specific please.
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4 ups, 3y,
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I don't see abortion aka killing babies written anywhere, please let us know where the constitution says that
1 up, 3y,
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Amendment XIV, Section 1, Due Process Clause

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
0 ups, 3y,
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Still don’t see the baby-killing clause.
1 up, 3y,
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You obviously have no understanding of how the legal system actually operates and the historical precedents that go into determining the outcomes of cases. Try reading SCOTUS' ruling on Roe v Wade and you'll learn how the 14th Amendment applies.
0 ups, 3y
No, I understand the Constitution. I also understand that a bunch of lying little bitches wearing black robes think they get to pretend it says things it doesn't say.

Emanations and penumbras. Absolute bullsh-t.
1 up, 3y,
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You might as well be asking where does it specifically state that semi automatic assualt rifles like AK 15s and 47s are legally permitted under the Constitution. You and I both know that the right to bear arms falls under the 2nd Amendment, even though when it was written specially referred to arms currently available at that time.

The 14th Amendment when it was written addresses issues of life, liberty, and property for all, which too could not foresee all future ramifications of such, yet nevertheless is still valid.
0 ups, 3y,
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But the Second Amendment does specifically address being armed. The 14th Amendment says nothing about killing babies. There is no way at all to logically connect the two. You’re just making sh-t up. It’s not there.
1 up, 3y,
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Why would I need to make anything up? This is stuff one learns in law school. If you don't believe me, here are some excerts from Roe v Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973) ruling that state as such....

"3. State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and
other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate
her pregnancy." p2

"On the merits, the District Court held that the "fundamental right of single women and married persons to choose whether to have children is protected by the Ninth Amendment, through the Fourteenth Amendment,"

"The principal thrust of appellant's attack on the Texas statutes is that they improperly invade a right, said to be possessed by the pregnant woman, to choose to terminate her pregnancy. Appellant would discover this right in the concept of personal "liberty" embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause; or in personal, marital, familial, and sexual privacy said to be protected by the Bill of Rights or its penumbras..." p17

"...the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas
or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution. In varying contexts, the Court or individual Justices have, indeed, found at least the roots of that right in the First Amendment...in the Fourth and Fifth Amendments... in the penumbras of the Bill of Rights... in the Ninth Amendment... in the concept of liberty guaranteed by the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment" p 40

"This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." p 41

In a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court defines “health” to include physical, emotional, psychological, and familial factors.
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I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but Roe vs. Wade IS NOT THE CONSTITUTION.

"Penumbras" what absolute f--king bullsh-t.
1 up, 3y
No shit! You asked where in the Constitution abortions were legally protected, I told you. When you didn't believe that, I went one step further and provided you with excerpts from SCOTUS' ruling on Roe v Wade that confirmed the basis of their ruling fell under Amendment XIV. Any first year law student would be able to tell you that.

And penumbras, under Constitutional law, are a group of rights derived by implication from other rights explicitly protected in the Bill of Rights.

Here is the legal definition and history of such...
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/penumbras
1 up, 3y
Garland subletly, albeit very clearly, delivers his message here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_6KLBlIOwo
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