Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent a civil investigative demand to Seattle Children's Hospital, demanding data on all Texas patients traveling for care, despite having no jurisdiction there.
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…
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.
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…