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Pursuant to Article V, Section 6, of the Constitution of Virginia, I veto House Bill 1539, which prohibits extradition for certain crimes. This bill is aimed at medical professionals from other states who may be in Virginia and subject to an extradition. The extradition process among the states has a long and successful history within an established legal framework required by the U.S. Constitution. This bill would undermine that framework and disrupt the extradition laws in all fifty states. Our cooperative extradition system could collapse if individual states were to carve out crimes for which they would not recognize codified laws because of differing political positions. Accordingly, I veto this bill.

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Pursuant to Article V, Section 6, of the Constitution of Virginia, I veto House Bill 1539, which prohibits extradition for certain crimes. This bill is aimed at medical professionals from other states who may be in Virginia and subject to an extradition. The extradition process among the states has a long and successful history within an established legal framework required by the U.S. Constitution. This bill would undermine that framework and disrupt the extradition laws in all fifty states. Our cooperative extradition system could collapse if individual states were to carve out crimes for which they would not recognize codified laws because of differing political positions. Accordingly, I veto this bill.
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Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 13:45:14 JST Waldo Jaquith

The Virginia legislature passed a bill preventing the extradition of VA doctors to states where abortion is illegal—otherwise, e.g. North Carolina could charge a VA doctor with providing an abortion to a NC resident who traveled to VA. The law explicitly says that it doesn't apply to a doctor who has fled another state.
Virginia's governor just vetoed it, saying the bill “is aimed at medical professionals from other states who may be in Virginia and subject to an extradition." Horseshit.

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