Governor Newsom Invokes Texas Abortion Law to Take on Guns in California

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Following the Supreme Court’s decision last week not to block SB 8, the Texas law that bans abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy and that also gives private citizens a right to sue anyone who “aids and abets” an abortion, an outraged California governor Gavin Newsom responded by stating he would use that law’s framework to address gun violence. “If the most efficient way to keep these devastating weapons off our streets is to add the threat of private lawsuits, we should do just that,” Newsom said in a statement. “California will use that authority to protect people’s lives,” declared the governor, “where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way.” We’ll discuss whether Newsom’s plan is legally viable and politically astute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.5	What used to feel to me like an academic question that had largely been settled in the favor of one nation
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1:27.0	State legislators in Texas passed a bill that was crafted to evade federal judicial scrutiny
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