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If Only SCOTUS Cared About Protecting Americans’ Rights As Much As They Do Illegal Aliens
https://thefederalist.com ^ | June 03, 2025 | Shawn Fleetwood

Posted on 06/03/2025 7:02:55 AM PDT by bitt

A Supreme Court more interested in playing politics than faithfully upholding the Constitution is one that will lose Americans’ trust.

If there was any doubt left that a majority of Supreme Court justices are more interested in playing politics than upholding Americans’ constitutional rights, it was all flushed down the drain following the Monday release of the high court’s weekly order list.

A week after refusing to defend the free speech rights of a Massachusetts minor, the nation’s highest court declined to take up two pertinent cases involving the Second Amendment. As The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported, one involved a challenge to a 2013 Maryland law banning the possession of AR-15s, while the other saw plaintiffs contest a 2022 Rhode Island statute making it a felony “to possess a magazine that held more than 10 rounds of ammunition.”

Plaintiffs in both cases asked SCOTUS for relief after suffering losses in the lower federal courts.

Despite the seemingly egregious infringement of petitioners’ Second Amendment rights, only Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch signaled their intent to take up the cases. (At least four justices must agree to hear a case before it can be considered by the full court.)

On its face, the choice to reject consideration of the cases is appalling. But a further reading of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion rationalizing the Court’s declination to take up the Maryland case makes the majority’s decisions look even worse.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; bretthasnospine; brettkavanaugh; illegalaliens; injusticeroberts; jordanboyd; judgewatch; politicaljudiciary; rights; scotus; shawnfleetwood; stoogewatch; supremecourt; supremefart; supremes; thesupremecourt; thesupremefart
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To: kiryandil

This article is spot on!


21 posted on 06/03/2025 1:17:15 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

I liked it. :)


22 posted on 06/03/2025 1:19:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: bitt

The reality is that much of the judicial system is rotten to the core. Solution? Hmmm.


23 posted on 06/03/2025 3:54:55 PM PDT by little jeremiah (https://qalerts.app/)
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To: csn vinnie

You are correct. Then she should be removed for Biden’s obvious Title VII violation. As the Democrats so flippantly used to say, “No one is above the law”. Any detractors over her removal should be told that “violations of civil rights laws in hiring are the most egregious, aren’t they?”


24 posted on 06/04/2025 5:20:25 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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