Representative Wimmer News Today

Federal government to take care of their mutual needs. if the federal government is monopolizing property that state could use for the citizen and freedom and their prosperpy and theyre -- prosperity and theyre not able to make use of the property in a way theyd like to, they should turn to federal government and say youre not upholding your obligation under the constitution and were going to take the land back and use in a way to benefit the citizen and protects their rights. >> representative ...

♪ ♪ >> love the intros, theyre just terrific. legal showdown is brewing out west over states rights with utah governor hubert authorizing the state use of eminent domain to seize the federal government most valuable real estate. now remember, eminent domain is right of government to take private property for public use. this will be the first time in american history a state is able to lay claim to federal land in this way. supporters now hope the legislation triggers similar bills throughou...

But these are strange times we live in. this is not the first d state to stand up to federal government saying you overstepped the bounds or you havent upheld the obligation as you have to state and citizen of the state. were very much in favor of the states doing this kind of thing to push back. >> representative wimmer, we are going to put on the screen a map of the western part of the united states. if you start with california, you go to nevada and then to utah. the red shows how much of the...

But these are strange times we live in. this is not the first d state to stand up to federal government saying you overstepped the bounds or you havent upheld the obligation as you have to state and citizen of the state. were very much in favor of the states doing this kind of thing to push back. >> representative wimmer, we are going to put on the screen a map of the western part of the united states. if you start with california, you go to nevada and then to utah. the red shows how much of the...

♪ ♪ >> love the intros, theyre just terrific. legal showdown is brewing out west over states rights with utah governor hubert authorizing the state use of eminent domain to seize the federal government most valuable real estate. now remember, eminent domain is right of government to take private property for public use. this will be the first time in american history a state is able to lay claim to federal land in this way. supporters now hope the legislation triggers similar bills throughou...

Federal government to take care of their mutual needs. if the federal government is monopolizing property that state could use for the citizen and freedom and their prosperpy and theyre -- prosperity and theyre not able to make use of the property in a way theyd like to, they should turn to federal government and say youre not upholding your obligation under the constitution and were going to take the land back and use in a way to benefit the citizen and protects their rights. >> representative ...

What you said that youre trying to do. youre anti-abortion and want abortion to be illegal in all cases, and this is an attempt to get there. its not closing the loophole. its creating a law thats unconstitutional. >> you do expect this to be -- i mean, theres going to be an appeal and go before the supreme court preem assumably, correct? >> i highly -- >> you dont disagree with that, representative wimmer, that thats ultimately your intent? >> i do not believe this bill will go to court. this b...

Reckless behavior causes them to miscarry their pregnancies. is that going too far? could it be staying in an abusive relationship. should that behavior be a crime? joining me right now is representative carl wimmer, who is the sponsor of the bill and lisa bloom. representative wimmer, explain, first of all, what exactly your intent is with this legislation. >> yeah. thank you. the intention of this legislation is to close a loophole that we found in utah law that allows a woman to kill her unbo...

About, what was your intention in putting these in? >> yeah. thank you. we had a case in utah where a pregnant woman hired a man to beat her, kick her in the stomach multiple times in an attempt to kill her seven-month-along unborn child. the man was charged with attempted homicide, as was the female. it came out in the courts that under utah law there was no cause for action for any attempt for a woman to try to abort her child no matter what she did. no matter how heinous the act was, she coul...