Civil rights advocates acting as private attorneys general represent *injured* parties against people who *violated* their rights.
They don't bring suits by *uninjured* parties to punish others for *exercising* rights. That's what SB8 allows.
They don't bring suits by *uninjured* parties to punish others for *exercising* rights. That's what SB8 allows.
More fundamentally, there is no "progressive playbook" of suing people for exercising rights and then contriving to prevent courts from deciding whether that's lawful.
Not yesterday. Not today. Not ever.
Not even with the door to this mischief thrown open by the Supreme Court.
Not yesterday. Not today. Not ever.
Not even with the door to this mischief thrown open by the Supreme Court.
If you're doing an SB8 take and desperately need an analogy for a system that redistributes $ without regard to injury, we do have a word for that. It's taxation.
And in the case of SB8, it's a system of taxation that targets people for exercising their rights. /end/
And in the case of SB8, it's a system of taxation that targets people for exercising their rights. /end/
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