The dramatic moment happened in a hearing in South Carolina over House Bill 4624, a bill that would ban gender affirming care for trans youth and forcibly out them to their parents.
Forgive my ignorance of American law and politics, but is it a judge that decided to advance this bill after huge opposition or a group of council members ect?
I really think they should be publicly and internationally named and shamed so the world can see what kind of people they are and act accordingly when we see them in public.
“Council” is the closest approximation I know of; this is a legislature, the branch of our government that writes laws. The executive branch (governor, in this case) approves laws and executes them, and the judicial branch deals with violations of those laws.
As for naming and shaming, they do not care. If anything, it’s a positive for them, they get airtime and name recognition, which helps them get to higher office.
I think it was a hearing by a committee of state legislators, and the committee voted to move the bill to the full legislature. That’s usually how things work in the US.
Note that, after this, and every person who bothered to come testified against the bill…
They advanced it.
Forgive my ignorance of American law and politics, but is it a judge that decided to advance this bill after huge opposition or a group of council members ect? I really think they should be publicly and internationally named and shamed so the world can see what kind of people they are and act accordingly when we see them in public.
“Council” is the closest approximation I know of; this is a legislature, the branch of our government that writes laws. The executive branch (governor, in this case) approves laws and executes them, and the judicial branch deals with violations of those laws.
As for naming and shaming, they do not care. If anything, it’s a positive for them, they get airtime and name recognition, which helps them get to higher office.
I think it was a hearing by a committee of state legislators, and the committee voted to move the bill to the full legislature. That’s usually how things work in the US.