Herman: Your "right to travel in a vehicle using human decision-making"
Yes, state Rep. Matt Schaefer knows there’s a pandemic and a panoply of other present priorities.
No, he doesn’t think his House Joint Resolution 98, filed this week, deals with something that's a right-now problem.
But yes, Schaefer, R-Tyler, thinks it addresses a down-the-road, oncoming infringement against which Texans need constitutional protection in our state’s Bill of Rights, right in there with equality, jury trials and freedom of worship, speech and press.
HJR 98 proposes to enshrine this new right in the Texas Constitution: “A person has the right to travel in a vehicle using human decision-making to operate the vehicle.”