EU resident wondering how the US legislative process works. For example the recent Texas abortion law, in the hypothetical situation that the majority of Texans don’t agree with the new law, what recourse do they have? What would the possibilities for repealing this law look like?
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Off the top of my head:
* write your current representatives, try to convince them to support new legislation
* elect new representatives
* convince the executive branch not to enforce it (Bush and later Obama did this with marijuana for instance)
* sue the government; get the judicial branch to declare the law invalid somehow
* conceal your noncompliance (we have privacy laws in part because we see disobeying the law as a legitimate political
process)
* fight your own conviction in court with good lawyers
* refuse to comply openly, securing your ability to do so with weapons
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