And they might do just that, although that’s probably tempting fate. On the other hand the 9 political hacks in black muumuus might not take another 2A case for 60 years.
Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing.
Speaking of politics being a scam, I wonder how many of our priorities will pass in just the House or just the Senate. I also wonder how often that was the plan all along.
Oh, they will take another 2A case sooner than that. They won’t be able to avoid it as the circuit split on the scope of the 2A grows. The question is who will be on the Court?
I still don’t get the denial of cert in the 9th Circuit case. There is no way you can square the 9th Circuit’s decision with MacDonald’s holding that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual and fundamental right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, and that the right to self-defense is “basic.” Alito write that decision, Roberts and Kennedy joined in it, and Thomas concurred (because he thinks incorporoation should come under the 14th Amendment’s “privileges and immunities” clause instead of “substantive due process.). Thomas and Gorsuch both dissented from the denial of cert in the 9th circuit case, and I’d have a hard time believing Alito didn’t vote to grant cert when he wrote MacDonald, so it must have been Roberts and Kennedy against granting cert.