Kavanaugh Presses Texas on Abortion Law as Path to Restrict Guns
- Supreme Court is hearing arguments on strictest curbs in U.S.
- Swing justice questions whether law may curb other rights
Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sharply questioned Texas over the prospect that the legal machinery of its new abortion law could be used against other freedoms, including gun rights.
“Can I ask you about the implications of your position for other federal rights?” Kavanaugh said Monday as the court heard arguments on the abortion law. He referred to a brief filed by a firearms rights group expressing concern that the law’s design to avoid judicial review could be copied by a measure threatening Second Amendment rights.