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Rollo's avatar

The American Protective League during the World War I era is another major precursor in official endorsement of vigilantism.

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This kind of American Supreme Court green lighting of vigilantism isn't new. Ever since the SCOTUS sanctioned it in the now overturned Dred Scott decision, people escaping Southern slavery had to go to Canada lest they be captured on Yankee soil and returned to their slave owners.

A Texas woman seeking a legal abortion in New York can be extradited (or kidnaped?) back to Texas and her abetting friends and family prosecuted in similar fashion to Dred Scott under a similarly written law.

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