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1/ Abortion-rights advocates have an unexpected ally in their fight to overturn Texas’ restrictive abortion law: the Firearms Policy Coalition, a gun rights group that argues the law’s enforcement mechanism could be used to infringe on gun ownership.

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2/ The Texas law was written to skirt judicial review by relying on private citizens — not state officials — to sue those who “aid or abet” an abortion.

The gun rights group says the law could serve as a model for suppressing constitutional rights.

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3/ A lawyer for the coalition said that if the law remained unchallenged, other states could create “private bounty schemes” targeting people who criticize the government, refuse to wear masks or engage in “any protected but disfavored conduct.”

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4/ Some legal experts agree with the group.

U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who argued the Justice Department’s separate case against the law, said that if the justices allow the law to continue, then “no constitutional right is safe.”

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5/5 The coalition filed a brief opposing Texas’ law to the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard arguments in the case on Monday.

Several of the justices appeared to agree with the group's concerns of possible copycat laws.

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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two high-profile cases against Texas' abortion ban.

The eventual ruling will likely determine the future of abortion care in Texas and shape the legal battles to come.

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BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott appointed John Scott as Texas' new top election official.

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