Don't buy media hype on Newsom's gun ban, it won't work: Constitutional scholar
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley says Newsom's 'California law is certain to play better on cable than in the courts'
By Emma Colton | Fox News
Anticipation is building around Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement that he will model a gun control measure in California after Texas' abortion ban. Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, however, says the plan won’t work.
"If the law is crafted as Newsom suggests, this won’t work legally. Nevertheless, there will be much cooing on cable programs at the cleverness of Newsom and the comeuppance for conservatives. Newsom will seize the moment in terms of popularity while leaving the costs to others to bear in the later failed litigation," Turley wrote in a post on his blog Sunday morning.
A Supreme Court decision Friday left Texas’ six-week abortion ban in place, but said abortion providers have the right to challenge the law in federal court. The Texas law allows private citizens to enforce the ban by allowing them to sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
The decision left Newsom "outraged," and he announced that he will fashion a gun control measure after Texas’ abortion law.
"I am outraged by yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in place," Newsom wrote in a statement Saturday evening. "But if states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way."
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