• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      It’s not just not legal, it’s nonsensical. Like, what does it even mean? How would it even be enforced? It’s just virtue signaling.

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      It isn’t; the Privileges and Immunities clause of the constitution has been interpreted by previous SCOTUS decision to mean that people can move freely between the States without restrictions.

      However, reactionaries like Abbott know they have ideological allies in the current SCOTUS who are eager to overturn case law in order to advance their shared conservative project.

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      16 hours ago

      A tariff on zero dollars is still zero. This means he’ll be introducing an unnecessary, job-killing regulation that adds more pointless bureaucracy to Texas’s already-extreme tax situation.

      So, traditional Republican politics.