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FIRST ON FOX – A group of Republican attorneys general are sending a warning shot to the state of Maine for a bill under consideration that would effectively establish Maine as a sanctuary state for procedures like sex-change surgeries for minors – a move the AGs say is “totalitarian.”
The bill, known as LD 227, would prohibit “interference” with abortion or sex change procedures, legally protect medical workers from facing lawsuits, and could potentially permit concealment of medical records from plaintiffs seeking legal action against a provider. In other words, a parent whose child went to Maine for a sex-change surgery would have no legal recourse, even though they live in a state where such operations are illegal.
A group of 16 attorneys general, led by Tennessee’s Jonathan Skrmetti, sent a letter Monday to Gov. Janet Mills, Attorney General Aaron Frey, and state legislature leadership calling the bill a “novel effort at state-sanctioned culture war litigation tourism.”
Below is a press release posted by Skrmetti:
On Monday, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti led 16 state Attorneys General in raising concerns over proposed legislation in Maine that would interfere with other states enforcing their state laws restricting childhood gender transition if those laws differed from Maine law.
“We have enough disagreement in America these days without state governments reaching outside their borders to cause trouble in other states,” Attorney General Skrmetti said in a statement. “It’s a fundamental principle of America that different states can approach controversial issues differently. Creating new avenues of lawfare at the state level to harass officials in other states would catastrophically destabilize our constitutional order. If legislators in Maine don’t like Tennessee’s laws, they are free to continue not living in Tennessee.”
The following states joined Tennessee sending this letter: Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia.
The letter can be read here.
.@AGTennessee Skrmetti Issues Statement Raising Concerns Over Maine’s Proposed Legislative Assault on Federalism
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— TN Attorney General (@AGTennessee) March 11, 2024
GOP AGs warn Maine to kill ‘totalitarian’ bill making sanctuary state for sex-change surgeries, or be sued https://t.co/fh65BPbD6K
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 11, 2024
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