California Gov. Gavin Newsom goes to make use of Texas’s abortion legislation as a template for brand new gun laws.
Newsom stated in an announcement:
I’m outraged by yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court docket determination permitting Texas’s ban on most abortion providers to stay in place and largely endorsing Texas’s scheme to insulate its legislation from the basic protections of Roe v. Wade. But when states can now defend their legal guidelines from overview by the federal courts that examine assault weapons to Swiss Military knives, then California will use that authority to guard folks’s lives, the place Texas used it to place ladies in hurt’s method.
I’ve directed my workers to work with the Legislature and the Lawyer Normal on a invoice that might create a proper of motion permitting personal residents to hunt injunctive aid, and statutory damages of a minimum of $10,000 per violation plus prices and lawyer’s charges, in opposition to anybody who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun equipment or elements within the State of California. If essentially the most environment friendly option to hold these devastating weapons off our streets is so as to add the specter of personal lawsuits, we should always just do that.”
Newsom’s announcement is precisely what Republicans feared. There’s a motive why the gun teams have filed a short with the Supreme Court docket urging that the Texas legislation be overturned.
It was solely a matter of time earlier than Democrats began utilizing the Texas abortion legislation template to hold out their priorities. Think about laws that made it straightforward for residents to sue firms which might be destroying the setting. Not solely may it occur, however it’s prone to occur.
Texas Republicans handed an unlawful invoice that the Supreme Court docket nonetheless has not overturned. The longer the Texas abortion invoice stays the legislation, the larger the disaster grows for the Republican Get together.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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