This
morning,
a
county
clerk
in
New
York
told
Texas
Attorney
General
Ken
Paxton
to
pound
sand,
refusing
to
domesticate
a
judgment
under
the
Empire
State’s
abortion
shield
law.
The
case
involves
a
$130,000
fine
levied
in
absentia
against
Dr.
Margaret
Carpenter,
the
founder
and
director
of
the
Abortion
Coalition
for
Telemedicine.
Texas
alleges
that
the
doctor
mailed
mifepristone
to
a
20-year-old
woman
in
Collin
County,
Texas,
who
was
later
turned
in
by
her
romantic
partner.
Dr.
Carpenter
is
also
under
criminal
indictment
in
Louisiana
for
helping
a
woman
there.
Under
New
York’s
shield
law,
passed
in
2023
after
the
Dobbs
decision,
the
state
will
not
cooperate
with
out-of-state
civil
or
criminal
process
relating
to
abortion
(as
well
as
gender-affirming
care).
Last
month,
the
state
denied
a
demand
to
extradite
the
doctor
to
Louisiana,
and
now
it’s
refusing
to
register
the
civil
judgment
against
her.
“Today,
I
informed
Texas
State
Attorney
General
Ken
Paxton
that
the
Ulster
County
Clerk’s
Office
will
not
be
filing
a
summary
judgment
against
a
New
Paltz
physician
who
is
facing
charges
in
Texas
for
providing
mifepristone
via
telehealth
to
a
Texas
resident,”
Acting
Clerk
Taylor
Bruck
said
in
a
statement
on
the
county’s
website.
“In
accordance
with
the
New
York
State
Shield
Law,
I
have
refused
this
filing
and
will
refuse
any
similar
filings
that
may
come
to
our
office.”
The
Times
Union,
which
originally
reported
the
story,
interviewed
Bruck,
who
clearly
understands
that
he’s
about
to
be
in
middle
of
a
maelstrom
that
may
turn
him
into
the
Kim
Davis
of
the
left.
“Any
future
lawsuit
will
provide
the
answers
for
what
we
have
to
do
going
forward,
what
all
clerks
will
have
to
do
going
forward.
It
will
set
the
precedent,”
Bruck
told
the
local
paper.
“It’s
a
bit
nerve-wracking
just
because
of
the
unknown,
but
it’ll
be
good
to
get
some
answers
out
of
it.”
For
his
part,
Paxton
is
itching
to
sue,
and
his
office
has
already
called
multiple
times
demanding
an
update,
despite
the
state’s
30-day
window
to
domesticate
a
foreign
judgment.
He’s
got
to
run
again
next
year,
and
so
the
window
to
get
himself
in
front
of
the
Supreme
Court
taking
on
the
godless
libruls
in
New
York
is
tight.
But
unlike
Kim
Davis,
who
recently
lost
a
protracted
appeal
to
avoid
personal
liability,
Bruck
has
the
support
of
local
politicians
and
law
enforcement.
(And
New
York
AG
Letitia
James
is
not
exactly
afraid
of
the
spotlight
either.)
“The
anti-woman,
anti-abortion
zealots
are
at
it
again,”
Governor
Kathy
Hochul
said
this
morning,
thanking
Bruck
“for
his
courage
and
common
sense.”
“Texas
AG
Ken
Paxton
chose
the
wrong
community
to
mess
with,”
agreed
Bruck’s
US
Rep.
Pat
Ryan.
“The
Hudson
Valley
doesn’t
back
down
—
we
stand
for
freedom,
and
together,
we
will
win
this
fight.”
Ulster
County
clerk
refuses
to
file
Texas
judgment
in
abortion
case
[Times
Union]
Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.