Just remember that a radical Republican Supreme Court opened the door to this, so all of you gun worshipers and fetishists have no one to blame but these radical Republican Supreme Court Justices for this tit-for-tat. Cosmic karma, baby!
Jason Easley reports, Republican Fears Come True As Gavin Newsom To Use Texas Abortion Law Template To Go After Guns:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is going to use Texas’s abortion law as a template for new gun legislation.
I am outraged by yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in place and largely endorsing Texas’s scheme to insulate its law from the fundamental protections of Roe v. Wade. But if states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way.
I have directed my staff to work with the Legislature and the Attorney General on a bill that would create a right of action allowing private citizens to seek injunctive relief, and statutory damages of at least $10,000 per violation plus costs and attorney’s fees, against anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in the State of California. If the most efficient way to keep these devastating weapons off our streets is to add the threat of private lawsuits, we should do just that.”
Newsom’s announcement is exactly what Republicans feared. There is a reason why the gun groups filed a brief with the Supreme Court urging that the Texas law be overturned.
It was only a matter of time before Democrats started using the Texas abortion law template to carry out their priorities. Imagine legislation that made it easy for citizens to sue corporations that are destroying the environment. Not only could it happen, but it is likely to happen.
Texas Republicans passed an [unconstitutional] bill that the Supreme Court still has not overturned. The longer the Texas abortion bill remains the law, the bigger the crisis grows for the Republican Party.
Newton’s Third Law of Motion applied to politics: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Maybe this is what it will take for radical Republicans to finally come to their damn senses.
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Judicial review is not explicitly contained in the US Constitution, but relies on an early Supreme Court decision, Marbury v Madison. If this Supreme Court wants to walk away from judicial review for their pet causes like abortion, they should not be surprised if blue states quickly neutralize the power of courts in many other areas.