For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
You don’t run on it you just enforce at a federal level. Republicans love state rights until they’re in power then they love telling states what they can and can’t do.
Democrats need to force this down their fng throat
I would hope that after two years of this insanity and blatant federal abuse of states, Democrats would be more supportive of states rights and reluctant to continue the decades long trend of expanding executive power.
No. Don’t misunderstand, I fucking hate this. This is disgusting. But the article points to the problem explicitly. It’s a bullet point at the top.
No Legal Pressure: Oregon officials say after the state put legal boundaries on faith healing, more parents sought care for kids. Idaho, by contrast, has kept its faith-healing protections.
I just don’t see the necessity to reach for the largest most powerful tool to solve a problem that is up to the citizens of Idaho to solve.
The federal government has literally executed citizens without trial in the streets. I’ve lost my appetite for the federal government having power. Perhaps, if the fed was weaker and states had more mechanisms of resisting or standing up for their own principles, we’d be better off.
I’m not advocating for nothing to be done. I’m just asking why must it be the federal government and not the Idaho government? Why invite a protracted supreme court battle over parents rights / religious protections? Do you think we’d win that right now? Genuinely?
There are more important things to push on at a federal level. Expand supreme court. Expand the house of representatives. Move to proportional representation instead of first past the post. All of this returns power to people so they can actually enact what they want. Things like climate change. LGBTG rights.
It’s tragic kids are dieing in Idaho. Kids are dieing in federal concentration camps. Who knows many have died, actually? How many people deported are dead now? How many people will die when their asylum status is revoked and are deported? The federal government is tampering with elections. Pushing states to redraw maps. And the supreme court does nothing.
What those cultists are doing to children and their families is deranged. Something must be done. By the people of Idaho. Because the federal government is too fucked to help. Maybe next year it’ll be better. We can only hope for a great midterm and more DSA wins.
You don’t run on it you just enforce at a federal level. Republicans love state rights until they’re in power then they love telling states what they can and can’t do.
Democrats need to force this down their fng throat
I would hope that after two years of this insanity and blatant federal abuse of states, Democrats would be more supportive of states rights and reluctant to continue the decades long trend of expanding executive power.
Not less.
Your fucking joking right
No. Don’t misunderstand, I fucking hate this. This is disgusting. But the article points to the problem explicitly. It’s a bullet point at the top.
I just don’t see the necessity to reach for the largest most powerful tool to solve a problem that is up to the citizens of Idaho to solve.
The federal government has literally executed citizens without trial in the streets. I’ve lost my appetite for the federal government having power. Perhaps, if the fed was weaker and states had more mechanisms of resisting or standing up for their own principles, we’d be better off.
I’m not advocating for nothing to be done. I’m just asking why must it be the federal government and not the Idaho government? Why invite a protracted supreme court battle over parents rights / religious protections? Do you think we’d win that right now? Genuinely?
There are more important things to push on at a federal level. Expand supreme court. Expand the house of representatives. Move to proportional representation instead of first past the post. All of this returns power to people so they can actually enact what they want. Things like climate change. LGBTG rights.
It’s tragic kids are dieing in Idaho. Kids are dieing in federal concentration camps. Who knows many have died, actually? How many people deported are dead now? How many people will die when their asylum status is revoked and are deported? The federal government is tampering with elections. Pushing states to redraw maps. And the supreme court does nothing.
What those cultists are doing to children and their families is deranged. Something must be done. By the people of Idaho. Because the federal government is too fucked to help. Maybe next year it’ll be better. We can only hope for a great midterm and more DSA wins.