some of them are true believers such as the speaker of the state house who says some of us believe killing children is wrong and people like trump who will say whatever it takes for them to be victorious. up until the supreme court made it possible for these zombie laws to go into effect, these two sides could be an alliance, unfortunately americans have seen the troop relet consequences of abortion being banned when it is not just a debate tactic or a political move and they found out they really do not like the reality of how women are being treated across the country. hence this conflict were people like kerry lake and trump would like to say they are against something that they either championed or in the case of trump directly enabled, suddenly they are acting shocked, because they are in tough races.
to $1,000. the crime, lewd and lascivious cohabitation, aka, people living together out of wedlock, gasp. that law from 1931 is still on the books in it state of michigan today this legislative session is the first time in 40 years democrats in michigan have been in control of the statehouse and the state senate and the governor emphasis mansion, and they re using their newfound power to do a little legislative spring cleaning shall we say they re getting rid of old zombie laws that don t make sense anymore here in this 21st century of ours, and you would think this would be unanimous. it is not. today again in the year of 2023 nine republicans in the michigan state senate voted against repealing this law two republicans even gave floor speeches about why laws like these are necessary to promote what one of them called, quote, good morals. while he didn t support the criminal penalties of the old
according to state constitutions and statutory law, marriage equality is not going to exist in those states if and when the supreme court overrules its own recent precedent in obergefell, saying that marriage is the constitutional right in the land. that s where we have seen this happen, 1859 law. it thawed, like a frozen cavemen coming back to life, to ban abortion in that state after the dobbs decision. of course, the next step for democratic majorities should they get enough votes would be to enshrine abortion rights in federal law. we ll see if that happens, that s what to watch for next. mondaire jones, thank you very much. thank you for having me. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now, good evening, alex. alex good evening, chris. i think that everybody appreciated that reference. i was thinking to myself as i said, that what is, that? recalling the zombie laws,
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will emit relates it. this is how to protect our democracy. i don t ask you one last question about choice. the state constitution amendments to protect a woman s right to choose, that passed in this last election. the 1931 zombie law is still, i, believe it still on the books. and you said that you want to get rid of that. even those no longer operative, i think a lot of american woman would see these s of laws torn up, and, then see these laws torn up and burnt, throw away in the dust and of history. when you think you take that care? that taking care of those books as it were? i think as soon as i get sworn in for my second term, when you legislature comes in, not only will we wipe that off the bucks, but maybe a lot of zombie laws that are sitting there, latent, that could pose a a threat based on the spring court continues to do in terms of a voting our rights. so we are storing the loss, we will be cleaning them up, these that president assessors should have done, we will tak