Posted on 06/15/2020 12:21:05 PM PDT by knighthawk
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanagh on Monday admonished their fellow justices for letting Second Amendment cases languish in the lower courts in a dissent to the tribunal's decision not to take up a gun rights case.
The last major Supreme Court cases to decide gun rights issues were McDonald v. Chicago and D.C. v. Heller, both of which came out more than a decade ago. Kavanaugh and Thomas, in the case of an ATM service worker who takes care of machines in "high-crime areas" but was told by New Jersey that is not a good enough reason for him to have a permit to carry a handgun, accused their fellow justices of ambivalence to potential violations of Americans' constitutional right to bear arms.
"This Court would almost certainly review the constitutionality of a law requiring citizens to establish a justifiable need before exercising their free speech rights. And it seems highly unlikely that the Court would allow a State to enforce a law requiring a woman to provide a justifiable need before seeking an abortion," Thomas wrote, in an opinion joined by Kavanaugh. "But today, faced with a petition challenging just such a restriction on citizens Second Amendment rights, the Court simply looks the other way."
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ANd this is why Congress should pass Conceal Carry Reciprocity and add at the end:
And the Supreme Court and all inferior courts shall remain silent on this issue.
Dear Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas:
Thank you.
But the people who can best “protect the Second Amendment” are already doing so.
Those of us who are armed - and willing - to “protect” it are doing the job that your colleagues are too spineless to do.
Kavanaugh’s no better. He just sided with the majority for the USSC to write whole new meanings into the sex discrimination employment law. Any elementary attempt at constitutionalism would have required Congress to update the law to include the coverage (for gays and transgenders, as they just rewrote it)—and Congress would have happily and quickly done so.
“Chief Judge Roberts has been an absolute disaster.”
Part of the problem is that conservatives elect feckless men like W. Not sure there were other choices in 2000. In 2004 and 2008, we supported the Constitution Party candidate.
One day, if we conservatives get over our insistence on foreign interventionism (Iraq etc) we can put the proper focus on matters domestic, as President Trump has attempted to do.
“After the LGBT ruling, can we trust Gorsuch?”
He was pro-homo when nominated
Gorsuch and Roberts can’t fathom the simple thought of “Equal Rights, not Special Rights”.
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