constitutional rights

“The best defense that we really have at this point is state constitutional rights,” Krell said.

“Ambition,” he said, “must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.”

They must carefully guard and exercise what he called “the constitutional rights“ of the institutions where their members serve, even if it means defying the wishes of a president from their party.

In September, over 100 groups signed a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson urging him to block the bill because it “poses a direct threat to the constitutional rights of any American nonprofit, house of worship, or advocacy organization, whether conservative, moderate, or liberal in orientation.”

“If that were the case, if embryos and fetuses had constitutional rights under the due process clause, states would be required to ban abortion,” she told Salon.