Kathy Hochul fires the first shot
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I definitely did not have this on my resistance to christo-fascism bingo card:
New York on Thursday rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, setting up a potential test of laws that protect physicians who prescribe such medications to states with bans.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said she will not honor Louisiana’s request to arrest and send the doctor to Louisiana after she was charged with violating the southern state’s strict anti-abortion law.
She also said she sent out a notice to law enforcement in New York that instructed them to not cooperate with out-of-state warrants for such charges.
The charges against New York-based Dr. Maggie Carpenter appear to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to another state.
Pills have become the most common method of abortion in the U.S. and are at the epicenter of political and legal fights over abortion access following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The showdown between New York and Louisiana over Carpenter is expected to result in a court case that could test New York’s so-called shield law, which gives legal protections to doctors who prescribe abortion medication to conservative states where abortions are banned or otherwise limited. Other Democratic-controlled states have similar shield laws.
Prosecutors in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana indicted Carpenter on charges that she violated the state’s near-total abortion ban, which allows physicians convicted of performing abortions, including one with pills, to be sentenced up to 15 years in prison.
Manhattan’s U.S. attorney on Thursday resigned rather than obey an order from a top Justice Department official to drop the corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams.
Then, when Justice Department officials sought to transfer the case to the public integrity section in Washington, which oversees corruption cases, the two men who led that unit also resigned, according to five people with knowledge of the matter.
The resignations represent the most high-profile public resistance so far to President Trump’s tightening control over the Justice Department. They were a stunning repudiation of the administration’s attempt to force the dismissal of the charges against Mr. Adams.
The now-former US attorney for the Southern District of New York — this is one of the most prestigious legal gigs in the whole federal government — is a Federalist Society golden girl with impeccable right wing credentials (clerked for Scalia among other things).
Sassoon’s letter to Bondi, forcing the AG to fire her.
Clap your hands and say yeah.
. . . Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove’s letter accepting Sassoon’s resignation is a farrago of fascist claptrap, in which Eric Adams is magically transformed into a victim of a political prosecution.
These people are total scum.