Posted on 04/09/2021 8:59:42 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
While President Joe Biden pushes for stricter gun control regulations, the Supreme Court is considering several Second Amendment cases with potentially major implications for gun ownership.
The case comes before the court as Biden ramps up the pressure for legislative action on gun rights. On Thursday, Biden signed a series of executive orders regulating firearms, and the White House signaled that his actions were “just the beginning” of a crusade against gun violence.
At the same time, the Supreme Court is weighing whether it will take up two cases that could clarify the limits of the Second Amendment. The first looks at the constitutionality of licenses to carry concealed handguns. The second examines the rights of convicted felons to own firearms. The court has both cases scheduled for its next Friday conference and could decide whether to hear them this month.
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Pfft! The Supreme Court needs no Constitution.
Always remember the Taney Court decided that blacks were not citizens because one of the right citizens had was “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”
Dred Scott vs Sandford
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
Paragraph 77 in the link below.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
If I'm on the Supreme Court and determine that my vote is to be watered down with court packing I ask myself which way shall I go? I'am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal in the scheme of things? Is this what I aspired to? Packing should be un-constitutional and I want to see the SCOTUS ruling.
And the people underestimating Biden merely because they hate him are as bad, if not worse, than the people who support him.
Being underestimated, thought senile, old, frail is a *wonderful* advantage over arrogant opponents. I think the biggest fools (in both the cognitive and moral sense) I know are the people who think him old, befuddled, merely a tool of Kamala and others; they are doing nothing but harm.
He’s dangerous, sly, and knows exactly how the game is played.
A Supreme Court that sanctions voter fraud is
to decide... I give up.
There is no Constitutional specification for the sized of the court, so expanding it (however dangerous or dumb) can’t be ‘unconstitutional’, the current count is just arbitrary and it could as easily be 3 or 30 people on there.
bump
reductio ad absurdum
Do better next time.
There is no Constitutional Specification for abortion and yet we have it. This involves 9 robes trying to save and elevate their phoney baloney jobs.
Different issue.
“Unconstitutional” has a specific meaning. I have no idea what a “Constitutional specification for abortion” could possibly mean.
Since there is no Constitutional specification for the size of the court, changing it - no matter how ill advised - can’t, by definition, be unconstitutional, simple logic.
The Supreme Court?
In all matters before them, one bit of advice.
Don’t count on them.
Wipe them out. Wipe them all out.
My answer to your ridiculous hypothetical is that the Constitution itself contemplated Americans having fully armed WARSHIPS. See Letters of Marque in Article 1, Section 8.
Personally, I would draw the line at WMDs, but the Constitution does not say any such thing.
That’s the coward’s way out.
Oh, and you didn’t even use the term correctly.
Try again.
That’s not an answer. This isn’t a warship. This is a weapon that with the push of the button can wipe out 99% of humanity.
Why do you draw the line at WMD’s if the Constitution is silent about them?
You bring up a good point about the Commander in Chief.
Wonder what the officer corps is thinking now. Those that are still loyal to the country.
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