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  • Ninth Circuit: Felon Has ‘Right to Possess Firearm for Self-Defense’

    05/10/2024 11:39:56 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/10/2024 | AWR HAWKINS
    On Thursday a three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that Steven Duarte, a felon, has a “right to possess a firearm for self-defense.” Courthouse News Service noted Duarte has five felony convictions and was a member of a street gang in Los Angeles. The decision upholding Duarte’s gun rights was split, with George W. Bush appointee Carlos Bea and Donald Trump appointee Lawrence VanDyke deciding in the majority. Bea wrote the majority opinion, noted the panel tested the prohibition against felons possessing guns in light of Bruen (2022) and found the government...
  • 9th Circuit Court orders cities and towns cannot force homeless people off the street

    07/08/2023 9:40:25 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 135 replies
    cbsnews.com ^ | July 6, 2023 | TOM WAIT
    The most powerful federal appeals court in the western United States once again refused to let cities and towns force the homeless off of the streets unless communities provide shelter for them. Cities large and small across the west coast have tried, and failed, to overturn the higher court's ruling for years, the latest of which came from the Oregon city, Grants Pass. "We are having a situation where the police were telling homeless people that they couldn't sleep in public or private, and private property," said Grants Pass Mayor Sara Bristol. "And eventually, that kind of boiled down to...