The People Have Spoken!

But the Republicans are not listening.

Abortion opponents are working to upend implementation of state ballot measures
In states like Ohio, Michigan and Kansas, conservatives are fighting abortion rights initiatives that voters overwhelmingly approved.
NBC News
By Adam Edelman
December 21, 2023

In the 18 months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion rights advocates have won every race in which the issue has appeared directly on the ballot.

But in several states, conservatives are refusing to let the results of those ballot measures be the last word.

In Ohio, Kansas and Michigan, for example, where abortion rights advocates won major victories in ballot measures over the past two years, anti-abortion groups and lawmakers are now turning their focus to blocking implementation of the initiatives by proposing bills and threatening lawsuits that would restrict the reproductive rights those elections protected.

The Republicans just done trust the voters to do the right thing.

Still, some conservatives are forging ahead with hard-line positions and tactics in states where abortion rights proponents had some of their biggest successes recently.

“Neither side is going to give up —  at least in the short term,” said Jonathan Entin, a constitutional law expert and professor emeritus at the Case Western Reserve School of Law in Cleveland, who has closely followed the legal and political battles over abortion rights in Ohio.

In November, Ohio became the latest red-leaning state where voters — in a resounding 14-point win for the Issue 1 ballot measure — enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution.

Just days later, conservative lawmakers drafted legislation that proposed giving the Ohio General Assembly “the exclusive authority over implementing Issue 1” — a move that would have “denied” that “jurisdiction” to all courts in the state.

We are on a mission from god! We know better than the infidels.

Anti-abortion groups are also fighting efforts by abortion rights groups to collect enough petition signatures to place the issue on ballots in states across the U.S., including robust “decline to sign” movements in South Dakota, Arizona and Nevada.

But abortion rights supporters say they are also prepared to keep fighting — even in states where voters have already weighed in.

I am glad that the Republicans keep forging ahead on this because the abortion rights advocates are building a voter base from voters who are against the heavy handed Republicans to ignore the will of the people.

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Republican Group Sounds The Alarm On 'Wannabe Dictator' Trump In Scathing Ad

The Republican Accountability Project is using "A Christmas Story" marathon to warn about the former president over the holidays.

HuffPost

By Ben Blanchet

December 23, 2023

A Republican group opposed to Donald Trump is pointing out how the former president stacks up to dictators in a new ad.

The Republican Accountability Project’s “Dictator Donald” spot, which comes weeks after Trump said he’d act like a dictator on “day one” of a new administration, sounds the alarm on the former president’s 2024 campaign.

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The ad goes on to display a Truth Social post from the former president who, in December 2022, called for the “termination” of articles of the Constitution.

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The ad later states that Trump plans to “purge tens of thousands of civil servants” from the government to replace them with his loyalists if he’s elected to another term.

The thing is Trump did say all that and meant it. Trump has a long memory and is very vengeful, he leaned it from his father attack you opponents and kick them when they are down.