Posted on 06/22/2024 1:00:59 PM PDT by Morgana
A New York appellate court on June 18 overturned a lower court’s ruling that would have taken a proposed measure to make abortion a constitutional right off the November ballot.
In May, a New York Supreme Court judge blocked New York’s Equal Protection of Law Amendment, which would outlaw discrimination based on “pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive health care and autonomy.” Though the amendment does not mention abortion outright, many warn it will allow abortion for any reason. In that ruling, Supreme Court Justice Daniel J. Doyle declared the proposed amendment “null and void” because state lawmakers committed an error in approving the amendment’s language before the state attorney general could issue an opinion on the measure, thereby violating proper procedure.
Now, however, the appellate court has ruled unanimously that the ballot initiative can stand, because the lawmakers who challenged the procedure had done so after a four-month statute of limitations had passed.
The court’s ruling was praised by pro-abortion state Attorney General Leticia James.
“Today’s decision to put the Equal Rights Amendment back on the ballot in November is a huge victory in our efforts to protect our basic rights and freedoms,” James said in a statement. “The ERA was advanced to protect access to abortion care, enshrine this basic right in our constitution, and protect people from discrimination. We will continue to do everything in our power to protect these rights and ensure everyone can live safely and freely in the great State of New York.”
Republican lawmakers have said they will appeal the case to the state’s highest court. “We continue to believe the legislature violated the constitution when it adopted the proposal,” David Laska, a party spokesperson, told the Associated Press Tuesday. “We will fight this proposal in the courts and, if necessary, at the ballot box.”
Unless another appeal is successful, the measure will appear before New York voters in November.
The derps are SO DAMNED SNEAKY!!!
So a ballot initiative is not legal because the law was not followed. And yet it cannot be challenged because it was not challenged in time. This is one great example of how corrupt our legal system is. Unbelievable. The appellate court is lawless.
The Rats don’t GAF about this issue, they simply want a justification for the fraud ballots they’ll be perpetrating in the fall — “an unusually high turnout of young female voters”.
Kansas 2022
So far, I’m not the least bit surprised.
State rights are a double edge sword.
Liberal lawyers are playing the same games now with abortion that they play with 2nd Amendment decisions. The SC makes a decision one way, the liberal lawyers/politicians pass a law that contradicts that decision and it becomes law until a challenge winds it’s way back to the SC where it gets slapped down. Then the libs pass another law with the same effect and the process starts all over.
They play to kill and send as many MAGA folk to prison as they can while our spineless POS backstabbing weaselRINOS can’t even hold mayorka or garland accountable, and put in prison.
I thought it was already legal in NY, for any reason, and at any time from conception right up until the kid pokes his head out?
Wasn’t it just a few years ago that our evil legislators stood and cheered when they passed the ok to murder children bill?
So, Leticia can be strangled to death and there is no murder because the action is a post birth abortion
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