The Seattle Children’s Hospital filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court on Dec. 7 against the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), after that agency requested documents related to gender transition policies and any such care provided to Texas children.

  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    It’s not possible to break the law like that. Imagine that someone shoots someone in the middle of 5th Avenue (who could that be?). Only the state of New York can prosecute them. They haven’t committed any crime in any other states.

    It’s the same thing here. You can’t prosecute without jurisdiction. If Osama Bin Laden went to Texas they couldn’t prosecute him there. I don’t know why Texans think they can prosecute things that happen elsewhere in the world.

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      9 months ago

      What if someone operates a drone, flies the drone from NJ to NY and has the drone shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue? That’s a lot closer to what Texas is reaching for with this - they think this hospital in WA is doing things illegal in TX via telemedicine. Hence asking for things like patients at this WA hospital who did their labs in TX.