It's illegal to run a DNA test on Elizabeth Warren without her consent (We checked)

Washington Examiner ^ | March 19, 2018 | Philip Wegmann

[Zakeet]

Massachusetts voters may never know the true genetic heritage of Sen. Elizabeth Warren,D-Mass., but they can be very clear on what the law says about performing DNA testing without written consent.

That's bad news for aspiring conservative super-sleuths, and Howie Carr in particular, who doubt that Warren really is of Native American ancestry.

[Snip-em]

While exceptions are made for clinical research, Massachusetts doesn't make allowances for genetic truther trolls eager to catch Warren in an obvious lie. And why should it? The senator has already embarrassed herself. Sans evidence of her ancestry, she submitted recipes to the Pow-Wow-Chow cookbook, claimed Native American heritage on her Harvard Law School job application, and even fundraised off of being nicknamed "Pocahontas" by the president.

But Warren is free to make those claims, and Warren has reason to feel secure in her secret genetic makeup. It is almost impossible, explains Gabriel Cheong founding partner of the Boston-based Infinity Law Group, to get a court order to test DNA on a political basis.

[Zakeet]

Me Cherokee Princess name of Gray Beaver ... Freepers heap bad bunch of genetic truther trolls ... Freepers say me not Indian ... Freepers speak with forked tongue ... me read article ... Freepers no can prove me not squaw ... me heap big relieved ... me have big haw haw ... me gnaw on buffalo jerky and chug-em firewater ... Freepers no more get pick on squaw ... Freepers no more call squaw fake Indian ... Freepers tell Big Chief Yellow Hair to do same ... Freepers give-em up now ... Freepers leave squaw alone!!

[Gay State Conservative]

OK...if this is a state-by-state thing you catch her in some state where it is allowed,grab a coffee cup (or a peace pipe) that she throws in the trash and send it off.And then dare her to prove that the sample was collected in Massachusetts.

[faucetman]

What about DC? Other states she visits? Coke can, coffee cup?

[Spok]

You’re right. Some states consider DNA left on a cup or cigarette butt to be abandoned. It would be odd to find a privacy interest in abandoned property, like discarded garbage.

[I want the USA back]

I resent the fact that one kind of ancestor, as opposed to another kind, can qualify one for special privileges, such as a job, free college, or moral superiority over those who don’t have that ancestor.

[bramps]

The author better hope that he has no skeletons in his closet because the last thing anyone on this planet wants to do is get on the bad side of Boston radio host Howie Carr. He is not afraid to stick verbal dagger after dagger right through your heart and he does it with humor that brings even his worst enemies to their knees.

[G Larry]

No need.

If she had any Indian blood SHE would have bragged about DNA results years ago.

[Da Coyote]

As if that matters.
Do da name Hillary Clinton (the grand mistress of unauthorized classified servers mean anything to you?
Oh, forgot, she really didn’t mean it.

[JPJones]

That’s what I think too.

She’s already taken the test.

[Gay State Conservative]

You’re right. Some states consider DNA left on a cup or cigarette butt to be abandoned.

IIRC there's been at least one SCOTUS case on this general subject.I think it involved the police taking a piece of evidence out of someone's trash can that was put out on the kerb for collection.I think they ruled that once put out on the kerb it ceased to be his property and the police could take it without a warrant.

[BipolarBob]

She’s already taken the test.

That's a sure bet.

[Beagle8U]

Or...’Crazy Whores’?

[Professional]

Who needs proof, it’s obvious to everyone she is a lying clown.

I love the face of the Democrat party, I hope they stay long time and continue to disgust and infuriate rational people that are voters.

Pelosi is my favorite in the bunch! Ugly and insane, creepy with a double scoop of senile, stupid.

[Erik Latranyi]

FReepers should be smarter than this.

Those DNA tests cannot really tell your ancestry. They make guesses, but are totally inconclusive.

Identical twins have been tested multiple times and they always come back with different backgrounds.

These Ancestry companies are full of it. They would make sure the Elizabeth Warren test would have Indian ancestry on purpose.

Stop putting your faith in bad science!!!!!

[for-q-clinton]

Curb

[moovova]

““The only time we really come across genetic marker testing, is when we are trying to prove paternity,” Cheong tells me over the phone.”

A valiant Freeper could claim Elizabeth’s your Mom...demand a paternity test.

[yldstrk]

You are absolutely correct. Equal under the law unless you are native American.

[Terry Mross]

Doesn’t matter. She could release her iwn DNA showing she has no native American genes and she’d still claim she does because her grandmother told her so. And that’s final. Sorta like it being written in the Bible. That makes it the Gospel.

[Mastador1]

Are you sure, because liberal writers of liberal cop shows have it done all the time, so it should be okay because liberals believe it so.

[Dave911]

LMAO!!!!!!!