Are there five votes to strike down Georgia's travel ban on legal abortion?

[I’m not Stu]

Kavanaugh's concurrence suggests Georgia's travel ban on legal abortion is unconstitutional.

[Ferguson97]

Alito and Thomas will say it's legal.
The liberals, obviously, will rule against it. Kavanaugh's concurrence makes it sound like he's with them.
ACB could go either way, leaning towards saying it's legal.
So that comes down to Gorsuch and Roberts. I have a very hard time believing they'd both say it's legal, especially if Kavanaugh is saying it's illegal.

My guess is no, they don't have 5 votes. 4 maximum.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Which law is this? I can't find any such law.

[I’m not Stu]

Which law is this? I can't find any such law.

HB 481 in Georgia.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Which law is this? I can't find any such law.

HB 481 in Georgia.

That is a very speculative interpretation with hardly any support in the text of the law.  Note that the law gives a woman the right to sue whoever performed an abortion on her, which would be odd if it meant to treat that woman as a criminal.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Which law is this? I can't find any such law.

HB 481 in Georgia.

That is a very speculative interpretation with hardly any support in the text of the law.  Note that the law gives a woman the right to sue whoever performed an abortion on her, which would be odd if it meant to treat that woman as a criminal.

The issue being asked about in this thread doesn't have anything to do with the punishments imposed, it has to do with the idea of Georgia attempting to exercise criminal jurisdiction outside its own boundaries, which presents Supremacy Clause and possibly Full Faith and Credit Clause issues. I'm not sure if HB 481 as written actually includes that either, but it's been widely reported.

[I’m not Stu]

Georgia is trying to impose its own state laws outside its jurisdiction.

[SnowLabrador]

No. That doesn't change the fact that, objectively speaking, it's blatantly unconstitutional.

[TheFonz]

Alito might say it's constitutional. Maybe. The rest would not.

[NewYorkExpress]

No(though the Roberts/Kavanaugh/Gorsuch trio all could go either way on this one), but I think that like Dobbs, it would be the five non-Roberts conservatives in the majority voting to uphold.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Which law is this? I can't find any such law.

HB 481 in Georgia.

That is a very speculative interpretation with hardly any support in the text of the law.  Note that the law gives a woman the right to sue whoever performed an abortion on her, which would be odd if it meant to treat that woman as a criminal.

The issue being asked about in this thread doesn't have anything to do with the punishments imposed, it has to do with the idea of Georgia attempting to exercise criminal jurisdiction outside its own boundaries, which presents Supremacy Clause and possibly Full Faith and Credit Clause issues. I'm not sure if HB 481 as written actually includes that either, but it's been widely reported.

If the bill were to attempt to exercise criminal jurisdiction outside of Georgia, how would they do that without imposing some sort of punishment?

Media reports on bills are generally not worth being trusted at all when it comes to any controversial social issue. They tend to report the ~vibes~ they get from a bill and avoid pointing to any specific language in the bill for the thing they are claiming it does.

[Unbeatable Titan Susan Collins]

Which law is this? I can't find any such law.

HB 481 in Georgia.

That is a very speculative interpretation with hardly any support in the text of the law.  Note that the law gives a woman the right to sue whoever performed an abortion on her, which would be odd if it meant to treat that woman as a criminal.

The issue being asked about in this thread doesn't have anything to do with the punishments imposed, it has to do with the idea of Georgia attempting to exercise criminal jurisdiction outside its own boundaries, which presents Supremacy Clause and possibly Full Faith and Credit Clause issues. I'm not sure if HB 481 as written actually includes that either, but it's been widely reported.

Could you link some of those reports? I am not finding anything.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Yes, 6 or 7. The principle being discussed here is whether states have the right to restrict interstate travel, not abortion.