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Harry Litman

Commentary: Love Texas' SB 8 because you hate abortion? Wait until a copycat law comes for your gun rights

For months now, the federal courts have aided and abetted an outrageous attack on the rule of law.

With judges' willing participation, abortion opponents have succeeded in the most brazen deprivation of constitutional rights since Jim Crow. They've accomplished this reprehensible feat with an unprecedented and tortuous abortion-ban enforcement scheme that is itself a separate offense against the Constitution.

At the next opportunity, the Supreme Court should invalidate this scheme, which is tantamount to open season on constitutional protections in blue and red states alike.

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