Montana to Allow Transgender People to Change Birth Record
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Another red state falls.
ffs read the article and dont just react to the post title like a redditor.
Montana passed a law banning it.
libtard state Judge Michael Moses, appointed by former Democrat governor Steve Bullock (Montana had a D governor 2013 to 2021) blocked it and basically started shouting at the state govt to allow trannies to do something unprecedented.
the state initially defied the judge and refused to comply. the judge started to threaten them with contempt [jail].
while the virtuous thing would have been to continue to defy the judge, to repudiate his power and authority, and to rally the state police to refuse to enforce any contempt order, lots of dumb people have this idea that we should still follow the "rule of law" even though this judge is acting outside of his lawful authority in excess of his power.
the state caved, likely because people in the department were scared of being arrested and higher ups didn't want to fight this battle.
the US system places too much TRUST in judges to not abuse their authority. increasingly, judges are just political operatives appointed for their political loyalties, particularly for Democrats. there is a reckoning coming. at some point we are going to need to reform the judiciary and push back against it or else the US will become a tyranny of some dumbfuck political activist lawyers in robes.
The point is, though, that no, no red state has "fallen". The only thing here is that we didn't have the "Constitutional crisis" of openly defying a judge, which has major implications which apparently some people in power do not want to test, yet. But this isn't over.
On the contrary, the US system relies on judges to abuse their authority.
This way they can pretend to be 'democratic' while pushing through their actual preferences by means of judicial activism.
The ruling classes do the same here in Europe. They go to Brussels and agree on something which the population despises, and then say they can't do anything about it. "Ooooooooh sorry, we have to do it because it's an EU edict".
You say "the US" but all I hear is "Democrats"
Republicans don't rely on judicial activism to subvert democracy.
You can't blame all the ills in a country on one faction. Democrats and Republicans are just two arms of the regime. Maybe this is easier for me to see because many European countries have numerous parties, all of them arms of the regime.
Look, both you and we are in big trouble, and we won't be able to solve it unless we properly diagnose the problem and its cause.
Quite a broad claim, but not a very credible one when many Republicans have been complicit in the subversion of democracy.
Also, you just described the state being too afraid to face a left wing judge so they caved. How do you not see that being very problematic for Montana's future?
No government has been willing to openly defy the judiciary before. If Republicans are going to do it, it should be when they are fully prepared and organized for that battle, it's probably a bad idea to just do it on impulse.
Montana has gotten much more expensive, has Californians fleeing to it, has cities that have become Democrat strong holds and now has this. Unless the natives fight to the bitter end their state is gone. Look at Idaho and what it has become. Look at Washington and Oregon and what they have become.
All big cities everywhere in the US, including in red states, are Democrat strongholds. It has been that way since as long as I remember. It's the nature of the libtards to cluster in cities. It certainly didn't happen because of immigrants from California.
I looked this up. Looks like California is the #2 state for immigration to Montana, behind Wyoming, but the numbers are very small, only 2,638 Californians in 1 year (2017). Montana has a population of 1,085,407.
I stand by what I said that Californian emigrants are disproportionately conservative.
What does that even mean? You can't close the state borders or start murdering "dem Californians". Montana is a redder state now than it was 10 years ago.
I just think you're having an emotional reaction and not using common sense. This is 1 libtard judge, not "Californians".