#SCOTUS #GOP #Dobbs #Bruen #LGBTQ

People:
you may have various conspiracy theories about how the GOP seized control of the Supreme court, in order to enact an extremist far right agenda

but the truth is simple:
The effective gerry mander of the electoral college, and dumb luck allowed the GOP to appoint a super majority
it really isn't a conspiracy theory, it is just bad luck

note: terms and conditions apply

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#abortion

Supreme Court Agrees to Rule on Domestic-Violence Gun Laws https://politicaliq.com/2023/06/30/supreme-court-agrees-to-take-up-domestic-violence-gun-laws/ #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #guns #DomesticViolence #2ndAmendment #14thamendment #Bruen #NewYorkState #politicaliq #news #politics

Five firearms rights before Second Circuit Court of Appeals attended by St. Lawrence County Attorney https://www.northcountrynow.com/news/five-firearms-rights-second-circuit-court-appeals-attended-st-lawrence-county-attorney-0337775

#NewYork
#2A
#GunLaws
#GunControl
#Bruen
#moa

Five firearms rights before Second Circuit Court of Appeals attended by St. Lawrence County Attorney https://www.northcountrynow.com/news/five-firearms-rights-second-circuit-court-appeals-attended-st-lawrence-county-attorney-0337775

#NewYork
#2A
#GunLaws
#GunControl
#Bruen

922(g)(8)'s prohibition is temporary - lasting only as long as the underlying order is in effect. (3/X) #gunviolence #domesticviolence #Bruen

United States v. Guthrey, upholding fed law prohibiting possession of firearms by persons subject to #domesticviolence protective orders, is the latest example of courts applying #Bruen to evaluate the same law and the same history and coming to a different conclusion (1/X)

Now out, a piece co-written with @Dahlialith, and given a terrific headline by Jeremy Stahl: “Let’s Stop Pretending Clarence Thomas Can Read the Framers’ Minds."

We explain that *nothing* about historical analogy requires the Supreme Court to allow domestic abusers, among others, to have guns.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/gun-laws-bruen-clarence-thomas-framers-domestic-abuse.html

#GunViolence #2A #Guns #Bruen #Heller #Rahimi #DomesticViolence #LawFedi

I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked that during the past 24 hours, while I was mostly working on a piece pinpointing a particularly dodgy aspect of the Heller-Bruen approach to gun control laws, another mass shooting and its aftermath were happening on an American university campus.

I expect the piece to go public tomorrow.

#GunViolence #Bruen #Heller #LawFedi

The case also includes an interesting discussion about what standard to apply at the second step of the #Bruen test: does the case require a "distinctly similar" or a "relevantly similar" analogue? #lawtwitter

Part of the fun of reading post-#Bruen cases is how delightfully snarky judges are. Judge Friot from the Western District of Oklahoma writes the historically similar laws cited by the government "shouldn't be too old, too new, too isolated, or too British." #lawtwitter https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-lewis-1239

Fifth Circuit Defends Sacred Right Of Wife Beaters To Carry Guns https://www.wonkette.com/fifth-circuit-defends-sacred-right-of-wife-beaters-to-carry-guns

#Fifth_circuit #Us_v_rahimi #Domestic_violence #Domestic_abuse #Judge_corey_wilson #Judge_james_ho #Judge_edith_jones #Ny_state_rifle_&_pistol_association_v_city_of_new_york #Bruen #Second_amendment #Guns

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the federal law banning “people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them from owning #guns” is unconstitutional. This is a completely expected outcome after Justice Thomas’s travesty of an opinion in the #Bruen case, striking down laws “that our ancestors would never have accepted”.

#USPolitics #USPol #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/federal-appeals-court-strikes-domestic-violence-gun-law-rcna68949

🧵 (1/2)

The post-Bruen jurisprudence on guns seems to want to prove that the Constitution really is a suicide pact after all.

Bruen reminds me of qualified immunity - less a legal doctrine than a game of Calvinball intended to ensure a particular result happens. And just like qualified immunity, it will have deadly consequences for innocent American lives.

#SCOTUS #Law #Bruen #Guns

To understand the current status of #2A law after #Bruen, I highly recommend this comprehensive new paper by @jacobdcharles

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4335545

The challenge by gun sellers to NY’s post-Bruen concealed carry law will proceed through normal appeals process, so headed to Second Circuit. #lawFedi #Bruen #GunViolence https://www.law360.com/articles/1566905/breaking-justices-reject-gun-dealer-bid-to-halt-ny-s-new-gun-law

I ended up reading a couple of pieces about the #SCOTUS Second Amendment jurisprudence post-#Bruen, and the best way to describe it is a game of jurisprudential Calvinball. The rules are made up and the points don't matter. District Courts have to find a historical analogy that is neither too old nor too new (ignoring the entire 20th Century!), make sure it is not an "outlier," and then hope for the best.

Bruen makes district courts play a rigged carnival game.

#SecondAmendment #Law

Forgive me, for a I took an extended holiday but I am back and reviewing post-Bruen cases and this one has some irresistible zingers. United States v. Love from the Northern District of Indiana. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60025691/79/united-states-v-love/ #2A #Bruen #FirearmsLaw (1/X)

#2A A federal magistrate in Maryland yesterday rejected a #SecondAmendment challenge to the federal reg prohibiting firearms on fed govt property, 45 C.F.R. § 3.42(g). This was a pretrial motion to dismiss criminal charges.
United States v. Marique, 2022 WL 17822443, No. 8:21-po-02263-AAQ (D.Md. Dec. 20, 2022) The opinion says #Bruen left intact laws prohibiting guns from "sensitive places."
"Post-Bruen case law has been consistent on this point," the opinion states, upholding the reg.

#2A Yesterday, a federal district court in El Paso, TX upheld the federal law barring habitual drug users, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), against a #SecondAmendment challenge under the new #Bruen rubric. United States v. Connelly, CAUSE NO. EP-22-CR-229(2)-KC, 2022 WL 17829158 (W.D. Tex. Dec. 21, 2022). The court said it was bound to follow pre-Bruen binding precedent from the 5th Circuit on this point, but also said the law could survive under Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Bruen.

This is a #2A case to watch. 👇👇

I’d be very surprised if #SCOTUS eliminates the stay from the 2d Cir, but the case itself—which the 2d Cir. will hear early next year—is the most ambitious #SecondAmendment challenge to gun laws post #Bruen & the trial court’s sprawling ruling adopts an expansive reading of Bruen’s new test that threatens much more than just New York’s new law.

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