Posted on 10/06/2022 7:41:04 AM PDT by rktman
The U.S. Supreme Court has shot down a Massachusetts gun control law, overturning a lower court's approval and returning it to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a determination that aligns with the high court's recent precedents.
Fox explained that ruling was thought to be a "landmark" in 2nd Amendment jurisprudence, opening the door for a multitude of challenges to state limits.
"The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not 'a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees,'" Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the 6-3 majority at the time. "We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Massachusetts showed the country how much they respect the law and the Constitution in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. When they feel like it, your rights mean nothing.
A good part of why I’m in Florida for 15 years. Screw MA.
Some sanity! Thank God for justice Clarence Thomas.
What on earth do you mean. ?
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Anyone see where kadisha j b, our newest supreme, landed on this? 🤔
I think the first sentence of Venkman's post was an example of Antiphrasis, or "the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is."
The case was from last year’s session so she had no say in the matter.
I haven’t, but it looked like Justice Thomas wrote the opinion.
Okay..
I finally got a letter from the local Chief. In my town only retired LEOs got “all legal purposes” licenses. Now, they have all been converted to unrestricted.
That only took 29 years.
I think he is referring to the lockdowns in Boston.
I think he forgets that Speedbump was gunned down in the streets. The other loser got shot up pretty bad as well. Just as they would have in a Southern state.
Really? Cause last year’s cases would have been published in June. I think this was a refusal to review a case, not an actual “decision.” I could be wrong.
Sounds like it was sent back with some notes to review. Per Justice Thomas.
Well played!
Thank God for Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump.
Absolutely.
You are correct. The article is a mixed rehash of last year's Bruen decision written by Thomas and news that the court sent a case back down to a lower court to be dealt with in light of the Bruen decision.
Here is the totality of the court's comment on it:
21-1160 MORIN, ALFRED V. LYVER, WILLIAM, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for further consideration in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U. S. ___ (2022).
The website is trying to generate hits with a misleading headline.
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