The Supreme Court Is Playing Constitutional Calvinball
Gavin Newsom wants to believe that what’s good for Texas is good for California. Shortly after the conservative majority on the Supreme Court allowed a narrow challenge to Texas’s anti-abortion law to go forward while the law remains in force, the Golden State governor vowed that he would pursue passage of gun restrictions modeled on the Texas law’s unusual structure.
“If that’s the precedent then we’ll let Californians sue those who put ghost guns and assault weapons on our streets,” Newsom tweeted last week. “If TX can ban abortion and endanger lives, CA can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives.”
Texas’s anti-abortion law is it delegates enforcement to the public rather than The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in held that women have a constitutional right to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term; the Texas law both violates that right and the landmark ruling.
