When the Supreme Court was considering a Texas law that allows lawsuits against abortion providers, the California-based Firearms Policy Coalition filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting abortion providers in their challenge to the law. “The approach used by Texas to avoid pre-enforcement review of its restriction on abortion and its delegation of enforcement to private litigants could just as easily be used by other States to restrict First and Second Amendment rights or, indeed, virtually any settled or debated constitutional right,” the FPC argued.
The high court voted narrowly to refuse to block the law from going into effect while state challenges moved forward. In dissent, Justice Sotomayor wrote that the court “clears the way for States to reprise and perfect Texas’ scheme in the future to target the exercise of any right recognized by this Court with which they disagree.”
Days later, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California would do exactly that — write a law that targets guns the way the Texas law targets abortion providers.
It’s now the law in Texas that citizens may sue an abortion clinic and any person who helps a woman get an abortion — even the ride-share driver who transports a woman to a clinic. Citizens may seek damages of up to $10,000, plus attorney fees, from the clinic, the driver, the doctors and the staff.
The law was drafted specifically to avoid review by federal courts. While the courts have clear power to order a government official not to enforce a law, it’s not so clear that the federal courts have any power to stop a private individual from filing a civil lawsuit. Meanwhile, the effect of the law is to create a potential financial burden so severe that abortion clinics shut down rather than risk it.
Newsom said he will work with the Legislature and the state attorney general to craft a law that allows private citizens to seek damages of up $10,000, plus attorney fees, from any manufacturer, seller or distributor of certain firearms such as “ghost guns” and guns classified as “assault weapons.” The governor seems to be anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court may strike down some of California’s gun laws as unconstitutional infringements of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Under Newsom’s proposal, if that happens, citizens would be able to sue gun manufacturers in state court, potentially harassing them out of business in California.
While no one doubts the ability of the state of California to harass a company out of business, many legal experts doubt that Newsom’s proposed law would work as he intends. Even the author of the Texas abortion law, state Sen. Bryan Hughes, said he didn’t think the citizen-enforcement mechanism would be “effective against firmly established constitutional rights.”
That ruling is sure to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, giving Newsom months or years to indulge the pretense that Californians are somehow not entitled to the protection of the entire U.S. Constitution.
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Sotomayor is acting like one more socially overeducated Leftist, educated way beyond her mental capacity to cogently process the incoming information for a rational result, reflecting more the equivalent image to the Supreme Court of what Kamala is to the Executive Branch, promoted based mostly upon color/gender, not the ability to process productive truth. You cannot compare the failed and failing, American life force debilitating subject of Abortion that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution, with our life/freedom protecting rights to bear arms that most definitely ARE. Let’s see just how successful Newsom’s socially woke Storm Troopers win the day, armed with Legal writs, and D &C baby vacuum cleaners, and Obama Border protecting Bean bag throwers, when they go into battle against citizens soldiers carrying AR-15s and well written copies of our Constitution, and let’s see who wins. It won’t be the people trying to pack the court with more Leftist loons like Sotomayor, but THE PEOPLE that succeed in unpacking the court from socially overweighted burdens like Sotomayor that the other sane Supremes have to carry on their backs. Suing corrupt politicians for malfeasance and failure in office, holding them financially accountable for the wasted taxpayer’s money, would be energy better spent than more acts of removing American Human Life force in the womb that Sotomayor seeks to encourage.
There is no need for abortions. Just practice BJ-sex.
Just ask KneePads Harris!
Since she GOT on the scotus, she’s shown she cares NOT what our constitution says… BUT WHAT HER leftist ideals believe.
“Newsom’s proposal, if that happens, citizens would be able to sue gun manufacturers in state court, potentially harassing them out of business in California.”
The Democrat Party is a party of dangerous fools.
Democrat party supporters operate strictly on emotion, with very little rational thought and who simply do not understand reality or basic economics. Democrats are willing to destroy themselves and everyone around them before they will agree to compromise their failed policies and destructive lies and beliefs.
Gun manufactures pay millions of dollars in taxes to the State of California, Why would a gun manufacture want to stay in California and pay very high tax rate and now to be held accountable for what someone does with their product?? Are car manufactures in California being held to the same standards or is this just another political Con and Deception??
Newsom and California—the saga of descent into ruin and depravity. Why even bother to continually bring them up? It is just one atrocity after another. They seem to be programmed to continue on a course of self destruction.
AND SINCE their voters had a chance to stop it, AND DIDN’T, they brought their doom on their OWN heads.
Newsom created a sewer in California and the sheep that voted for Newsom helped create the sewer, that they are living in. Ah, the “stupidity” of the liberal voter is unsurpassed!