Fighting Fire With Fire

California governor Gavin Newsom is taking the opportunity to nullify national law as seriously as Greg Abbott has done in Texas.

Taking a cue from the anti-abortion law in Texas that allows private citizens to sue to enforce it, Governor Newsom, who clearly wants to run for President someday and is feeling his oats after surviving a recall attempt back in September, is proposing legislation to allow California residents to sue "anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon" in California and allow up to $10,000 in damages for this who sue successfully.  This is wen though the band on assault weapons in California is being litigated in federal court.

The idea is that, if the U.S. Supreme Court lets the anti-abortion law in Texas stand while litigation against that goes through the federal courts, it can have no complaints against a similar gun-control law in California.  Sorry, but I'm one of those cynics who think that the Supreme Court will apply a double standard and strike down such a California law outright. And they'll it with this reasoning.  Where does it say "right of the people to keep and bear arms" mentioned in the Constitution?  The Second Amendment, of course.  Now . . . where does it say "right to an abortion in the Constitution?

They conservatives on the Court aren't called "strict constructionists" for nothing.

Sometimes, when you fight fire with fire, you can expect to get burned.