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Elie Mystal: Gavin Newsom’s Gun Stunt Is Inspired—and Doomed to Fail

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Elie Mystal: Gavin Newsom’s Gun Stunt Is Inspired—and Doomed to Fail

California Governor Gavin Newsom has done what tons of progressives want elected Democrats to start doing: fight like Republicans. Over the weekend, he announced that his office is working on a bill modeled after Texas’s Senate Bill 8—the one that empowers private bounty hunters to take away the constitutional rights of women and pregnant people by enforcing a six-week abortion ban. But Newsom doesn’t want California’s version to go after people with uteruses; he wants it to go after people with guns. 

Read the rest of Elie Mystal’s piece at The Nation