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Biden Issues Mandate Trying to Force Every Employer in America to Fund Abortions [Short. To-the-point]

The Biden administration issued a mandate today that would attempt to force every employer in America to fund abortions.

Proposed regulations the Biden administration announced Monday for implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act are coming under fire from pro-life advocates. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s proposed rule hijacks the bipartisan law, which does not address abortion, to impose an abortion mandate on virtually every employer in the country, including pro-life and Christian employers who oppose abortion.

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires every employer in America to “reasonably accommodate” a worker’s “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.”

But Biden is now proposing that “related medical conditions” include “termination of pregnancy, including via . . . abortion.”

If the mandate is implemented, it would require employers with more than 15 employees to create “reasonable accommodations” for their workers’ abortions, even if doing so violates their pro-life or religious beliefs.

The proposed rule will be formally published Friday, kicking off a 60-day period for pro-life and religious Americans to submit public comments to the administration to oppose this radically pro-abortion rule.

Hovannes wrote: 07 Aug 2023, 19:25 Biden will get his comeuppance.
At his age, sooner than later.
I understand Nomex is quite the thing.

[Since the US Constitution's adoption], it's fallen largely on the U.S. Supreme Court to determine where authority over the border falls. Largely, they have sided with the federal government, including most recently in 2012 with the case Arizona v. United States.

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"Even five years ago, I would say that [TX Gov. Abbott's] argument is just unequivocal nonsense," Sanford Levinson, a constitutional law professor at the University of Texas, said. "That is to say, the United States of America overrides the claims of states in almost all respects."

[…]

"I have no doubt that traditional law would say that it is the United States that controls what happens at the border, including the Rio Grande River, rather than Arizona, or Texas, or whatever," Levinson said. "But we have a remarkable Supreme Court right now; a remarkable Fifth Circuit; there are some remarkable district judges who have done remarkable things in the last year. So as an academic, I would say that I'm really hesitant."

Wosbald wrote: 12 Aug 2023, 11:51 +JMJ+

Title: Abbott claims "sovereign authority" over border security, but Supreme Court precedent isn't so clear
Source: CBS Austin
Link: cbsaustin DOT com/news/local/abbott-claims-sovereign-authority-over-border-security-but-supreme-court-precedent-isnt-so-clear

The finding by the International Boundary and Water Commission, which is responsible for border and water treaties between the United States and Mexico, was filed Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department with the federal court that is overseeing the lawsuit against Abbott and the state of Texas.

"Comparing the survey results against the International Boundary Line (IBL) between the United States and Mexico, the survey as concurred in by (U.S. and Mexican) Commissioners reflects that the buoy chain crosses the IBL, and that a majority of the floating barrier … is located within the territory of Mexico," the filing in the federal court's Western District of Texas states.

According to the court document, IBWC representatives from both nations late last month conducted a topographic survey of the section of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass where the 1,000-foot chain of buoys have been floating since mid-July.

The survey found that only 108 feet of the chain was in American waters.

Wosbald wrote: 15 Aug 2023, 18:49 +JMJ+

Title: Texas' Rio Grande buoys are mostly on Mexico's side of river, international agency says
Source: Caller Times
Link: caller DOT com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2023/08/15/abbotts-buoys-were-placed-mostly-in-mexican-territory-agency-says/70594858007/

The Money-Quote:

The finding by the International Boundary and Water Commission, which is responsible for border and water treaties between the United States and Mexico, was filed Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department with the federal court that is overseeing the lawsuit against Abbott and the state of Texas.

"Comparing the survey results against the International Boundary Line (IBL) between the United States and Mexico, the survey as concurred in by (U.S. and Mexican) Commissioners reflects that the buoy chain crosses the IBL, and that a majority of the floating barrier … is located within the territory of Mexico," the filing in the federal court's Western District of Texas states.

According to the court document, IBWC representatives from both nations late last month conducted a topographic survey of the section of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass where the 1,000-foot chain of buoys have been floating since mid-July.

The survey found that only 108 feet of the chain was in American waters.