This Week in Statehouse Action: No Rules, Just Right edition

To paraphrase Walter Sobchack, this is not ‘Nam. There are rules.

…although, as an erudite consumer of this missive, you know that Republicans in a non-negligible number of statehouses enjoy changing or simply ignoring certain rules when it suits them.

(Not that Democrats are immune from this, they just do it vanishingly infrequently – feel free to hit me up with your favorite examples; bullshit and bullshit callouts know no party.)

We’re going to start with Ohio, since it’s pretty much ground zero at the moment in terms of GOP state lawmakers changing the rules when it suits them – or at least trying to.

Majority Rule

This is a bit of a saga, so let’s start from the beginning.

In 2019, Ohio’s Republican-majority legislature passed a law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy — which is before many women even know they’re pregnant.

That law was essentially a “trigger law” th…