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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

how do jurisdictions work again? can't Seattle just say go fuck yourself Texas and be done with it?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They could, but it's a pretty progressive city, so there's nothing to lose and everything to gain for anyone public-facing in Seattle to be seen telling Paxton to fuck off.

Also, on a much less cynical note, making a bigot with grotesque demands look thoroughly foolish this time could create a precedent that could save lives in less clear-cut cases.

Tl;Dr: Telling Paxton off as loudly as possible (figuratively speaking) is both the opportune thing to do AND the right thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If it got to the Texas supreme Court could it get appealed to the US Supreme Court? I dunno if I trust a non brain dead response from those clowns.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's no way it would get that far, even in Texas.

Apart from the obvious fact of Texas law having no legal bearing on what people do outside of Texas, you can't rule in favor of Paxton without opening up Texas to a shitload of trouble from states who would like to for example close a couple gun law loopholes..