Posted on 02/21/2017 4:21:30 PM PST by ColdOne
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas can't cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015 that launched Republican efforts across the U.S. to defund the nation's largest abortion provider.
An injunction issued by U.S. District Sam Sparks of Austin comes after he delayed making decision in January and essentially bought Planned Parenthood an extra month in the state's Medicaid program.
Texas is now at least the sixth state where federal courts have kept Planned Parenthood eligible for Medicaid reimbursements for non-abortion services, although a bigger question remains over whether President Donald Trump will federally defund the organization.
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There is no line item in the Federal budget funding Planned Parenthood. It is an executive branch decision - therefore he could indeed issue an order to defund it and divert the funds for the same services to other organization that do not perform abortions as a primary business like Planned Parenthood does.
I have read over and over from the Democrats that PP provides health services such as mammograms. We have a huge, very busy abortion mill in Bakersfield. On their website it says they provide mammogram referrals. Not mammograms. Referrals.
Sparks was nominated by President George H.W. Bush on October 1, 1991,
In 2006 he handled a case involving the Texas Republican Party’s effort to get former Congressman Tom DeLay’s name removed from the ballot in the 2006 Congressional Election. DeLay won the Republican primary election in March, but resigned from Congress in early April during a corruption scandal. However, since Texas law states that the name of a candidate who “withdraws” from a race after the primary must remain on the ballot, Texas Democrats filed a lawsuit to prevent Republicans from nominating another candidate. Republicans argued that DeLay did not “withdraw” from the race but instead made himself ineligible to be elected by changing his voter registration from Texas to Virginia, therefore allowing Republicans to name a replacement.
On July 6, Judge Sparks ruled that DeLay’s name must remain on the ballot.[8]
Patriots need to get Trump up to speed with the major problem that institutionally indoctrinated judges are using state sovereignty-ignoring precedents to “overturn” precedents established by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
activist “judges” ought be placed in public stocks and pummeled with rotten veggies.
or dragged behind pick em up trucks going down rocky roads.
Yup. Our future Liberties and Freedom depend on it.
If one person can overturn an election or invalidate the president protecting the American people, then it doesn’t bode well.
Worst of all, most of the time when a judge makes a ruling, it halts the original order or law until it can be ruled by the upper courts. So the judge is effectively instantly invalidating the law with the law being reinstated weeks, months, or a year later.
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