The Supreme Court just proved that its gun rulings have been a disaster
The Supreme Court just proved that its gun rulings have been a disaster
The justices double-down on the laws of the 18th century.
In 2019, Texan Zackey Rahimi assaulted his girlfriend and fired his gun at a witness. He was put under a domestic violence restraining order, which he violated by possessing a firearm—an infraction under a 1994 federal laws—which he fired at people on multiple occasions. In his defense, Rahimi argued that the restraining order’s gun ban violated his 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed: there was no 18th century law analogous enough to the statute barring Rahimi from possessing a gun, and therefore under Bruen, that statute must be unconstitutional.
Yo what the FUCK
I can see why Texas is the venue that Republicans go to when they wanna get some crazy shit into precedent on a federal level
How was he not charged with a felony for any of that?
I could be wrong, but my assumption is that he's in quite a lot of trouble and going to be in an extended limbo of custody and probation for quite a while going forward because of his other charges, whichever way the more minor issue of violating the protective order comes out (i.e. his lawyers are just mounting a vigorous defense as they're supposed to do, and they found one of them that they can fight effectively through this weird little argument.)
It's like exigent circumstances only exist when it benefits their arguments...
The 18th century analogy standard was widely misused. Probably because SCOTUS didn’t make it clear and it’s a strange standard anyway. But yeah, the fifth circuit is a wild one
I mean it’s basically a gateway to bad laws
“If there’s any dispute between how it used to be and how it is now, we want to make it so how it used to be wins”
“Wait isn’t there usually a reason they changed it?”
“I said no questions”
Every time I see his corrupt face I hope it made the frontpage because he stepped down, slipped and broke his neck or whatever.
Disappointed once more.
I like my corrupt justices like I like my coffee: ground up, boiled, and helping me shit out last night's dinner
Maybe personal beliefs shouldn't be imposed on policy that affects different people of different faiths. Wish that was written down somewhere. We could use it as a guideline for how the founding fathers wished the country would be run.
I don't know man, maybe slave owning people who lived 248 years ago didn't have the best ideas, or the be all end all say in how a government should work? Maybe I'm nuts?
That's a really broad brush you're painting with. It's almost as if the founding father is were complex human beings with complex issues that they had to compromise a lot on in order to even start the country we live in. I mean they kicked that slavery can down the road, where it landed and started the Civil War.
That really is the problem with a lot of the Constitution and similar founding documents. Some of them were widely popular universally (such as banning the quartering of troops) at the time but have little real bearing on our lives today if any. Others were so divisive that they had no choice but to either leave them out entirely (slavery) or compromise messily (iirc that's why we have the electoral college, but I'm rusty on the details).
But no I mean let's just hold them up as if they were demigods who could make no errors and knew everything. Because that makes fucking sense.
Confused what the complaint is here, they ruled that you can't be a criminal and own a firearm.
We have a bigger issue that abusers are rarely forced to give up their firearms.
Some folks are trying to spin this ruling as good news for Hunter Biden and I don't see it.
The court ruled it's OK to deny gun rights to domestic abusers.
People really think they'll deny abusers but allow crack addicts? 🤔
"Some folks"
Who tf cares about Hunter Biden?
You're a fucking mod on this sub? Grow up
Boy, you sure told him! Your eloquent words completely changed my stance on this issue. I may never encounter someone with your magnitude of intelligence ever again.