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A Texas state representative says that a bill banning the enforcement of any new gun control laws is constitutional because it would only prosecute police and other state officials.

Fox News guest host Peter Johnson Jr. on Monday asked state Rep. Steve Toth (R) why his bill to moot any new federal assault weapons ban would not violate the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says that state laws are trumped by federal laws.

"This is not a nullification bill," Toth insisted. "We target a very specific portion of where the Obama administration's proposed legislation is infringing on our Second Amendment rights, and it only deals with those two things. For example, the size of a magazine and the type of weapon. We're very specific about it, and we're not going after federal officials. We're simply saying state officials within the state of Texas are are not allowed to violate our Second Amendment as it pertains to these two things."

"The way you eat an elephant is one bite at a time, and we're going to start first with state officials that are also dual -- a state official that acts both as a federal and state official," he added. "These are people that are county sheriffs and so on."

"Law enforcement officials in the state of Texas could be charged with a crime themselves if they enforced those federal provisions?" Johnson pressed.

"Correct," Toth agreed.

The Texas lawmaker argued that he had to act to protect law enforcement officials who had vowed not to enforce new gun control legislation because "they would be subject to prosecution" by the Justice Department.

"So, we had to protect them," he said.

A Public Policy Polling survey last month found that 49 percent of Texas voters supported a federal assault weapons ban, while 41 percent opposed it.

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Jon Stewart took his viewers though some of the "highlights" of this week's Presidential inauguration, whether it was the media freaking out over whether or not Beyonce was lip syncing the national anthem, to Chuck Schumer overseeing the activities, to the media's reaction to President Obama's speech.

MSNBC was full of praise, Fox was doing their usual and broadcasting from some alternative universe where the likes of Peter Johnson, Sean Hannity, Stuart Varney and racist "Uncle Pat" Buchanan reside and then we had CNN, who had their anchors on fashion patrol.

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From our friends over at News Hounds, it's not just Karl Rove out there conflating the morning after pill, which is emergency contraception with the abortion drug RU486. Here's Peter Johnson on this Saturday morning's edition of Fox & Friends shilling for the Catholic bishops as well. As Priscilla rightfully noted in her post:

And I can't believe that it's 2012 and we're talking about a woman's right to birth control. The last time I heard this argument was around 1961 when Catholic priests used their pulpits to condemn Planned Parenthood and women who used the sinful birth control pill.("Every Sperm is Sacred!") I was appalled then and I continue to be appalled at how this church uses its power and wealth to try to impose its misogynistic views on all women. And unlike the old days, it has a national news network from which to spread its, IMHO, archaic, misogynistic views. Fox News "fair & balanced" thanks be to Roger Ailes, Fox's "version of God."

Amen to that sister. Go read the whole thing here for a description of Johnson's hackery -- Peter Johnson Jr. Continues Lie That Emergency Contraception Is Abortion Drug.

As Media Matters noted, we've got more of this coming sadly even after the President's compromise on the insurance mandate -- Fox Prepares To Move The Goalposts On Insurance Coverage For Contraception.