Posted on 03/02/2020 4:44:03 PM PST by TBP
Today, Justice Neil Gorsuch threw a little shade at the Trump administration for unilaterally rewriting federal gun laws. "The agency used to tell everyone that bump stocks don't qualify as 'machineguns.' Now it says the opposite. The law hasn't changed, only an agency's interpretation of it," Gorsuch wrote. "How, in all of this, can ordinary citizens be expected to keep up—required not only to conform their conduct to the fairest reading of the law they might expect from a neutral judge, but forced to guess whether the statute will be declared ambiguous….And why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?"
Gorsuch's statement came attached to the Supreme Court's denial of certiorari in Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Damien Guedes, who challenged the legality of Trump's bump stock ban, recently lost before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which said the ban was entitled to judicial deference under the Chevron precedent. The Supreme Court today declined to hear Guedes' case.
Gorsuch is right.
Gorsuch is right.
What happens when the ATF decides they were wrong and all those AR and AK are now short-barreled rifles and are NFA items?
Where was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Did she blink her eyes today?
“Gorsuch is right.”
Agreed.
Indeed he is.
Plain language and forseeable action help make for good law.
The stoopit bump stock ban aint that.
Has any crime been committed with a bump stock?
ATF bureaucrats decide what the law is. Suck it up peons!
Good. SCOTUS should just overturn the damn ban.
Only her hairdresser knows for sure.
It seems to me Gorsuch is pointing out the general problems of bureaucratic overreach and “lawmaking” based on bureaucratic power plus political ideology
IOW, the law is what the ATF says it is on any given day. And you had damn well better know in advance what their “interpretation” is going to be next week if you want to stay out of jail.
Banana republic
I think the Vegas shooter used one. Not sure though.
One, allegedly.
The nut in Las Vegas who shot up the concert.
Allegadly, as there has been no proof that I know of.
It used to be that in America we did not disenfranchise thousands for the actions of a lone nut.
Guess I’m showing my age.
Well, Gorsuch is correct....
According to the FBI, anyway, the Las Vegas Massacre was.
And random shooting into a mass of people is about the only practical use of a bumpstock, but that is a whole different argument.
Las Vegas
Good!
One of the few things which makes me realize that Trump can be turned.
I don’t care about bump stocks but I do care about making laws with the stroke of a pen.
Yes, he is right, at least they signaled they will strike it down if the right case presents itself.
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