Federal judge strikes down California's 'fee-shifting' gun control scheme, which echoed Texas aborti

Joe knows · Dec 20, 2022

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fe...-gun-control-scheme-echoed-texas-abortion-law

A federal judge has blocked the state of Californiafrom enforcing a gun control scheme that was modeled after a controversial Texas abortion law, delivering Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom the exact outcome he wanted.

U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California issued a permanent injunction on Monday against the "fee-shifting" provisions of the state's gun law – which empowers private citizens to bring lawsuits against manufacturers of illegal guns – declaring it unconstitutional.

"'It is cynical. ‘It is an abomination.’ ‘It is outrageous and objectionable.’ ‘There is no dispute that it raises serious constitutional questions.’ ‘It is an unprecedented attempt to thwart judicial review,’" Benitez wrote in his opinion, quoting directly from Newsom's criticisms of the Texas abortion law.

The Texas measure makes abortions illegal after a fetal heartbeat can be detected and permits private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone else who assists in a woman's procurement of abortion for $10,000. This fee-shifting mechanism was designed to protect the 2021 law from judicial review to circumvent the Supreme Court's old abortion precedent in Roe v. Wade. The high court has since overturned that precedent, permitting states to restrict, or liberalize, abortion.
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good on this judge. It’s obvious that abortion is never mentioned in the constitution but arms is. The two aren’t even comparable on a constitutional standpoint

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