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Justice Brett Kavanaugh floated the possibility of Texas's abortion law becoming a model for states to restrict other constitutional rights, such as gun rights under the Second Amendment.
Kavanaugh pressed Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone on the hypothetical during oral arguments at the Supreme Court Monday for two challenges to S.B. 8the Lone Star State's controversial law prohibiting abortions when a so-called "fetal heartbeat" can be detected, which is as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
https://www.newsweek.com/kavanaugh-asks-if-texas-abortion-law-could-model-bans-gun-rights-free-speech-1644642
texasfiddler
(1,986 posts)Casady1
(2,133 posts)He was a wannabee and not an actual rapist when a women was passed out?
Ocelot II
(115,280 posts)I'm no fan of Kavanaugh, but he kinda nailed this one: If the wingnuts want to enable private vigilante lawsuits to try to get around the state action requirement for challenging a law's constitutionality, they might want to stop and consider how that same principle could be turned against their pet causes.
Swede
(33,143 posts)He may have actually poked a pin in this texas balloon.
Ocelot II
(115,280 posts)He's certainly smart enough to see that the TX law could be an exploding cigar for the right wing.
LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)based on who they voted for?
lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)ready for reality. Wouldn't it be lovely if the magats started demanding the justices retire!
Woodswalker
(549 posts)I see that weeping sniveling brat at his hearings bitching about Hillary.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)... just couldn't be modeled after the Texas abomination law, and writes the majority opinion that not only is the Texas law unconstitutional; but also the way that law was modeled, no law like it would be Constitutional.
Nah. Who am I kidding?
LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)PlanetBev
(4,098 posts)Fucking guns. And in his case,🍺.