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> Another example is Desantis removing elected prosecutors who oppose the police/fascist agenda.

The desire and laws written to do this sort of thing come from lobbying organizations like ALEC [0][1][2]. This and other similar organizations basically write "model laws" and hand them to legislators to pass. That's why all the "red" states suddenly decided to outlaw trans people at the same time.

They dodge lobbying oversight laws by having legislators become "members" of their club.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...

1 - https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

2 - https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/money-influence/alec/




No-one is outlawing anyone, these laws are harm reduction measures for risky and controversial medical interventions that are being inflicted upon vulnerable children and adults.




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