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Swede

(33,143 posts)
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:42 PM Nov 2021

Kavanaugh Asks if Texas Abortion Law Could Be Model for Bans on Gun Rights, Free Speech

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. 8—the 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

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Kavanaugh Asks if Texas Abortion Law Could Be Model for Bans on Gun Rights, Free Speech (Original Post) Swede Nov 2021 OP
Actually that is an astute question for a wanabe rapist texasfiddler Nov 2021 #1
How do you know Casady1 Nov 2021 #5
Exactly right. It could be. Ocelot II Nov 2021 #2
Exactly right. Kavanaugh is tainted, but he is onto something here. Swede Nov 2021 #6
While his character leaves something to be desired, Kavanaugh is not a stupid man. Ocelot II Nov 2021 #7
And when will fascists be able to turn in their neighbors LuckyLib Nov 2021 #3
Let's hope that's their "test balloon" for public opinion, getting the magats lindysalsagal Nov 2021 #4
When ever I hear his name mentioned Woodswalker Nov 2021 #8
Maybe he's framing the question to determine if there were just some things that ... marble falls Nov 2021 #9
Go after the first with churches? LiberalFighter Nov 2021 #10
Boy, that's all they can think of PlanetBev Nov 2021 #11

Ocelot II

(115,280 posts)
2. Exactly right. It could be.
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:48 PM
Nov 2021

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)
6. Exactly right. Kavanaugh is tainted, but he is onto something here.
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 08:02 PM
Nov 2021

He may have actually poked a pin in this texas balloon.

Ocelot II

(115,280 posts)
7. While his character leaves something to be desired, Kavanaugh is not a stupid man.
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 08:14 PM
Nov 2021

He's certainly smart enough to see that the TX law could be an exploding cigar for the right wing.

lindysalsagal

(20,440 posts)
4. Let's hope that's their "test balloon" for public opinion, getting the magats
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:53 PM
Nov 2021

ready for reality. Wouldn't it be lovely if the magats started demanding the justices retire!

 

Woodswalker

(549 posts)
8. When ever I hear his name mentioned
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 08:40 PM
Nov 2021

I see that weeping sniveling brat at his hearings bitching about Hillary.

marble falls

(56,358 posts)
9. Maybe he's framing the question to determine if there were just some things that ...
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 10:08 PM
Nov 2021

... 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?

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