SF 2589 as introduced - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)
www.revisor.mn.gov

This came up in my health care forum.

Right now, you can legally detain someone medically when they are a danger to themselves or others for up to 72hrs. The details vary by state, but this is how we lock down individuals trying to suicide or someone mentally off the rails making threats of violence.

This variation on that law would also make opposition to Trump qualify.

Civil commitment can follow as with individuals who have profound mental illness and are not safe to be out in the world.

This is the loudest scream that democracy is dead short of hauling people out into the street and shooting them.

It’s important to note the police are currently the people who bring individuals in for the 72hr mental health holds.

        • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          Like one of the bluest.

          False. It's almost a swing state.

          screenshot of wikipedia's "2024 United States presidential election in Minnesota" infobox, showing most of the counties in red and vote totals of 50.92% for Harris and 46.68% for Trump screenshot of Minnesota Senate infobox showing 67 seats, 34 Democratic–Farmer–Labor and 33 Republican

          In fact, if you sort the table here you can see that of the states Harris/Walz won there was only one (New Hampshire) where they got a lower percentage of the vote than in Minnesota.

          However with the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party having a majority (by a single seat) in the Senate, this bill will obviously not pass, and if it did, obviously the governor (Tim Walz) would not sign it.

          This is just trolling by some deeply unserious politicians.

        • tischbier@feddit.orgEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          I noticed the “Psychic.” At first I thought that it was alluding to people like me who are lawyers but have a strategic mind and fairly accurately predict outcome with good data and information.

          But then I immediately realized they’re just extremely dumb and dangerous. Might also have been trying to say psychotic/psychosis.

          If it stays as written, then I would like them try to prove the existence of psychics.

          It’s a troll as you say. But having watched the law for a long time and being in the law, it is highly likely that a group that is more competent will get a hold of this idea, draft a real version, and pump that legislation out to every state legislature.

          We have that being homosexual is a crime still on the books in most places. We are only 40 years old from homosexuality being considered a mental illness. This sort of thing is absolutely on the table.