Kline: Rebuffed Again
By The story of Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline‘s attempt to rifle through the health and sexual records of adolescent girls has been rebuffed once again in U.S. District Court; Lizardbreath has the news and links to the decision. She also makes a good point:
Something that gets forgotten when people talk about “judicial activism” is that judges are all that stand between us and executive activism, like that of the Kansas Attorney General trying to use a law that had never been held to apply to minors having consensual sex with each other, and that when it was passed in 1989 was clearly not intended to mandate the reporting of consensual sex between minors, to further his political agenda. If Mr. Kline wants laws that he can use to harass abortion clinics, he can lobby the legislature for them like any other citizen. Until then, the judiciary is there to protect us from an otherwise uncontrolled executive.