These officials are likely to face swift backlash from the right, including, in some cases, retaliation from state authorities who will demand they enforce the law as written. The district attorney of Bexar county in Texas, Joe Gonzales, has also pledged non-enforcement. Steve Descano was thinking about his 10-year-old daughter when he pledged not to enforce abortion bans in his home county of Fairfax, Virginia. Nessel says she will not enforce the ban in Michigan, along with at least a dozen law enforcement officials across the country – a bold statement that sets the US up for a complex legal landscape with different enforcement regimes in different states, and even within them. In Michigan, a 1931 law would be triggered, making abortion illegal in almost all cases except to save the life of the pregnant person. If the draft opinion stands, 26 states are likely or certain to ban abortion. Nessel plans to protect that same right for residents of her state if Roe v Wade is overturned this summer, as a leaked supreme court draft opinion indicates is all but certain, Poppy Noor writes.
“I took my doctor’s advice, which I should have been able to do,” she says in a phone interview. But after finding herself pregnant with triplets in 2002, she faced an unenviable choice: abort one, or miscarry all three. Michigan’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, never thought she would have an abortion. The district attorney of Bexar county in Texas, Joe Gonzales the Michigan attorney general, Dana Nessel and Virginia’s attorney for Fairfax county, Steve Descano. ‘This is not hopeless’: the progressive prosecutors who vow not to enforce abortion bans What has Trump said in response? After yesterday’s hearing, Trump issued a 12-page statement calling the investigation a “kangaroo court” and a distraction, and repeating false claims of voter fraud. Trump instead followed the advice of an “apparently inebriated” Rudy Giuliani to falsely declare victory before a winner was known, Liz Cheney said at the hearing. What did they find out about Trump claiming victory on election night? Trump rejected several advisers’ guidance to wait for more votes to be counted.
“We will tell the story of how Donald Trump lost an election and knew he lost an election, and as a result of his loss decided to wage an attack on our democracy,” said the Democratic chair of the committee, the Mississippi congressman Bennie Thompson. When Trump began spreading lies about widespread fraud in the election, some of his top aides, including the ex-attorney general and former Trump loyalist William Barr, repeatedly told him the claims were baseless.
During the two-hour hearing, committee members meticulously documented how several of Trump’s senior advisers urged him not to declare victory on election night, as votes were being counted.
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