camo556
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So the Firearms Policy Coalition filed a brief in Whole Womens health, see here:
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/10/22/the-firearms-policy-coalition-targets-texas-s-b-8/
And the court granted cert and scheduled arguments for Nov 1st.
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/10/22/supreme-court-grants-certiorari-in-texas-s-b-8-case/
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/10/22/the-firearms-policy-coalition-targets-texas-s-b-8/
From Amicus's perspective, if pre-enforcement review can be evaded in the context of abortion it can and will be evaded in the context of the right to keep and bear arms. While the political valences of those issues seem to be opposites, the structural circumstances are too similar to ignore. As with Roe and Casey, many States view Heller as wrongly decided. Those States, with the help of many circuit courts, have showed an ongoing refusal to accept the holding in Heller and a continuing creativity in seeking to circumvent any protections for, and to chill the exercise of, Second Amendment rights. It is hardly speculation to suggest that if Texas succeeds in its gambit here, New York, California, New Jersey, and others will not be far behind in adopting equally aggressive gambits to not merely chill but to freeze the right to keep and bear arms.
And the court granted cert and scheduled arguments for Nov 1st.
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/10/22/supreme-court-grants-certiorari-in-texas-s-b-8-case/