Posted on 10/29/2023 12:16:31 PM PDT by marktwain
On September 28, an en banc panel from the Ninth Circuit grabbed control of the Duncan v. Bonta. The magazine ban case in a stunning departure from the usual order of the court. It may or may not have violated the rules of the court. Several of the judges on the panel were not happy. Four judges of the eleven-judge panel dissented. Of particular interest was the dissent of Judge VanDyke.
The first part of the dissent explains how the abortion decision in Row v Wade and its follow-up decisions distorted court procedure and case law. It is used as an example of how poisonous special treatment of a political cause is. The history of the en banc panel by Judge VanDyke shows how opposition to the Second Amendment took priority over everything else. Below is most of the VanDyke dissent concerning the Second Amendment.
Cases involving the Second Amendment in our circuit have unfortunately suffered from a like phenomenon. And just as we should no longer distort our rules in abortion cases, we should no longer apply “different rules to different constitutional rights.” Whole Woman’s Health, 136 S. Ct. at 2321 (Thomas, J., dissenting). We should not give Second Amendment cases “special” treatment.
But the current irregularities highlighted by Judge Bumatay’s dissent are not the only way this case continues to demonstrate our court’s enduring bellicosity toward the Second Amendment. The irregularities in this case run much deeper— indeed, all the way back to when this case was first called
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Still the 9th Circus.
“Originally, FBI agents were not allowed to be armed.”
They were originally nothing but investigators for the DOJ, not law enforcement agents.
“Certain members of the FBI (more than a handful) have violated their oaths and committed crimes.”
They have ALL done so by allowing the other agents to commit treason, sedition, insurrection, espionage, etc.
Joe Bribeme also ignores the constitution...
These judges are destroying the moral authority of the courts. They won’t like it one bit afterwards.
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