Posted on 12/14/2021 3:52:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
Gavin Newsom is leading the way.
The Supreme Court has just heard oral arguments in the case of Dobbs v Jackson. The justices have not reached a decision yet, but the decision could overturn Roe v Wade. If the left dodges a bullet, and the Supremes uphold Roe, Governor Gavin Newsom would like them to think about it again.
You see, Texas did something creative, which Newsom thinks he can copy. Texas came up with a novel way to reduce abortions. Its new fetal heartbeat law makes abortions after a heartbeat is detectable illegal. But it leaves enforcement up to private citizens — by making abortionists liable for civil damages.
Legal scholars are still trying to figure out if this approach places the law outside the realm of questions about constitutionality. Do litigants actually have standing if nobody has been sued yet? The Supreme Court hasn't decided if the law is constitutional or not, but it has refused to prohibit the law in the short term. The Court is allowing challenges to the law to wind their way through the lower courts — which could take years. That gives the Court years to figure out how to get out of the pickle it created with Roe v Wade.
But the whole thing gave Governor Newsom an idea. If Texas can kill the abortion industry with lawsuits, why can't California do the same thing for the gun industry? Don't use the power of the state to shut down gun dealers. Just allow private citizens to sue them out of existence.
What could go wrong? Newsom has clearly outsmarted the Supremes. They can't possibly uphold the Texas heartbeat law and then strike down his gun control law —
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And California had a chance to recall their idiot.
This guy is an idiot. The problem with the plan to follow the anti-abortion bill is that the states have been trying to use lawsuits to kill the gun industry for decades. Thousands of suits, none successful. Congress has even shielded gun manufacturers. Newsom knows this; he just wants a campaign issue.
An abortion st is literally killing a child a gun manufacturer is simply manufacturing an object. The two are nothing alike...I guess then someone could sue Ford for making a car because the idiot ran through a parade?
The constitution does not guarantee the killing of babies and never did! What it does is guarantee the right to bear arms to protect all life.
No Newsom has out smarted himself. What gun company would do any business in the State of California? Who would supply the police with weapons? Who would stop crime when only criminals have guns?
“The right to kill and dismember the unborn shall not be infringed.” says no constitution ever. Newsome is a wealthy psychopath.
Since most criminals are minorities,you wouldn’t;t be able to sue them
Have the left shoot themselves because the rainbow unicorn has toxic masculinity?
The problem with Newsom’s law is the same problem that exists with the Texas abortion law. Virtually every suit filed should be immediately dismissed due to lack of legal standing.
In spite of the legislative climate there, California is the largest market in the country for firearms.
Except that one is mentioned in the Bill of Rights, and the other... Not so much.
Newsome? An Idiot?
Hardly. Don’t assume that he is because he says stupid things. He says the right things to the right people and gets his desired results.
The man is a meglomaniac. He wants to rule. And he wants to establish (And already has) that he is elite - better than normal people and normal people are nothing more than tools or pets to people like him.
California is the totalitarian government depicted in Hunger Games.
Prove me wrong.
Can’t California do the same thing for the auto industry?
Constitutionality is confusing for Newsom sounds like a case of rewriting the Constitution to fit the lefts agenda hello 1984 and and American Marxism in the same act.
Nope, can’t sue the criminals
Not Newsom. John Green, the author of the OP.
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