加利福尼亚州州长加文纽瑟姆周六对最高法院决定允许德克萨斯州为期六周的堕胎禁令继续有效表示“愤怒”,并表示他将使用类似的法律策略来解决他所在州的枪支管制问题。
纽森在一份声明中说:“我对昨天美国最高法院的决定感到愤怒,该决定允许德克萨斯州对大多数堕胎服务的禁令仍然存在,并且在很大程度上支持德克萨斯州将其法律与罗伊诉韦德案的基本保护隔离开来的计划。”
“但如果各州现在可以保护他们的法律免受将攻击性武器与瑞士军刀进行比较的联邦法院的审查,那么加利福尼亚将利用这一权力来保护人们的生命,而德克萨斯州则用它来使妇女处于危险之中,”声明继续说道。 .
最高法院周五的裁决允许德克萨斯州的堕胎法在怀孕前六周后禁止堕胎,但表示堕胎提供者有权在联邦法院挑战该法律。然而,堕胎提供者可以起诉州官员的裁决限制,这可能使他们难以在怀孕第六周后恢复提供堕胎。
这是由于该法律的新型执法机制,允许来自该国任何地方的普通公民对任何协助孕妇寻求堕胎的违法者提起民事诉讼。
如果只允许下级法院发布命令阻止选定的州官员执行禁令,目前尚不清楚这是否足以让诊所恢复程序,因为他们可能仍面临来自寻求执行禁令的普通公民的州法院诉讼。禁止。
根据最高法院的决定,纽瑟姆表示,他指示他的工作人员起草一项法案,该法案将允许私人公民寻求“针对在美国制造、分销或销售攻击性武器或幽灵枪套件或零件的任何人”的禁令救济。加利福尼亚。”
州长的声明说,除了律师费外,该法案还将规定至少 10,000 美元的法定赔偿金。
“如果让这些毁灭性武器远离我们的街道的最有效方法是增加私人诉讼的威胁,我们应该这样做,”纽森说。
CNN 的 Ariane de Vogue、Tierney Sneed 和 Jacqueline Rose 为本报告做出了贡献。
California governor says he will use legal tactics of Texas abortion ban to implement gun control
California Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed his "outrage" Saturday at a Supreme Court decision to allow the Texas six-week abortion ban to remain in effect and said he would use similar legal tactics to tackle gun control in his state.
"I am outraged by yesterday's US Supreme Court decision allowing Texas's ban on most abortion services to remain in place, and largely endorsing Texas's scheme to insulate its law from the fundamental protections of Roe v. Wade," Newsom said in a statement.
"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," the statement continued.
The Friday ruling from the Supreme Court allowed Texas' abortion law that bars the procedure after the first six weeks of pregnancy to remain in place but said abortion providers have the right to challenge the law in federal court. However, the ruling limits which state officials can be sued by the abortion providers, which could make it difficult for them to resume providing abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy.
That is due to the law's novel enforcement mechanism, which allows private citizens -- from anywhere in the country -- to bring civil suits against anyone who assists a pregnant person seeking an abortion in violation of the law.
If lower courts are only allowed to issue orders blocking the select state officials from enforcing the ban, it is unclear if that will be enough to allow clinics to resume the procedure, as they might still face state court litigation from private citizens seeking to enforce the ban.
In light of the Supreme Court's decision, Newsom said he directed his staff to draft a bill that would allow private citizens to seek injunctive relief "against anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in the State of California."
The bill would also provide for statutory damages of at least $10,000 in addition to attorney's fees, the governor's statement said.
"If the most efficient way to keep these devastating weapons off our streets is to add the threat of private lawsuits, we should do just that," Newsom said.
CNN's Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Jacqueline Rose contributed to this report.