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The proposed law would let California citizens sue gun manufacturers, similar to how Texas has made it easier for its residents to sue abortion providers.
After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block a Texas state law that bans most abortions there, Gov. Gavin Newsom said he'll push for a new California law that deters the manufacture and sale of assault rifles in the state.
In a statement Saturday night, the governor said he was outraged by the court’s failure in a decision Friday to enforce longstanding constitutional protections in favor of abortion rights.
But by not striking down the Texas anti-abortion law, which relies on private citizens for enforcement, Newsom argued that the court has endorsed states’ ability to create similar legal mechanisms to safeguard laws from federal court review. In his statement Saturday, Newsom referred to a recent federal court decision that overturned the state’s ban on assault rifles in which the judge compared the weapons to a Swiss Army knife.
“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,” Newsom said.
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6 of the 9 Justices of the Supreme court are or were formerly members of the rather batshit fundamentalist religious Federalist Society. They invited speakers to my law school who said such things as equality is not a fundamental Tennant of natural law, that speaker then argued that gay and trans people deserve no rights. This attack on our personal liberties will not end at abortion. But what they need to do to achieve the ends that they so fervently believe justify their means is: push major decisions of constitutional issues to the state governments. So, Gov. Newsome is somewhat along the right line in how to fight this ultra rightwing band of lunatics. Take actions inconsistent with their values at the state level. SCOTUS will differentiae gun rights from the other rights and protect it tooth and nail, so it's unlikely you will see any 2nd amendment rollbacks, but every time the Fed Soc Judges of the Supreme Court write some convoluted logical pretzel of an opinion, there should be ramifications for more than the one issue they decide to pick out. My friends, now is the time to start paying attention to your local elections, gone are the days where the state legislature and the state supreme courts have little to no power to decide anything that will matter to you and me on a day to day basis. GET INVOLVED IN LOCAL POLITICS.