Fabulating Supreme Court Support For Gun Rights
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 11 months ago
NPR.
On the hot-button issues of abortion, guns and race, the court’s conservative majority is most likely to start moving aggressively next term and thereafter.
Will Roe v. Wade, the court’s 47-year-old abortion rights precedent, be overturned? There are two schools of thought on that. One is that the court will systematically hollow out the right to abortion so that it is a right on paper only.
The other school of thought is that leaving Roe a shell is not enough for those opposed to abortion. “There is, I think, a galvanizing view within the pro-life movement that the time has come to call the question,” observes New York University law professor Melissa Murray.
If Roe is to be overturned, however, it likely will take more than a year or two to come to fruition. Former Obama-era Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has said that he thinks it likely will happen within five years or so.
On guns, though, the court looks — for the first time — to have a clear majority that is hostile to gun regulation. Last term, the court once again punted, and punted again on the issue, declining to hear 10 gun-rights cases. Presumably, Chief Justice Roberts’ then-deciding vote was still in doubt.
But now, with Barrett newly on the court and Ginsburg gone, there appear to be five conservative votes ready to march down the path of expansive gun rights, and Second Amendment activists are teeing up new cases.
“I can tell you people are getting more aggressive,” says professor Blackman, a gun-rights advocate. Gun-rights groups “are emboldened to try to push new frontiers” now.
If we’re reminded of nothing else with this sorry lot of people, we’re reminded in 2020 of the traitorous, treacherous nature of the black-robed tyrants.
I’d just as soon they stay out of the second amendment. Here is a prediction: they’ll do nothing positive for your liberties, and they may make it much worse. I think people are fabulating support for gun rights that doesn’t exist within the judiciary.
They have a fundamentally different world and life view than you do.
On January 1, 2021 at 3:03 pm, John said:
Lin Wood, who is a real attack dog has implied that Roberts was being blackmailed
because of a pedophile incident and he stated he wished Epstein could be questioned
and then said he was alive. I would certainly like that to pop open in the next few days.
On January 1, 2021 at 5:42 pm, Hudson H Luce said:
Look, it’s a *right*, not a privilege. It pre-exists the Bill of Rights, which is simply a list of pre-existing rights. It’s a line in the sand, and it tells you the degree of legitimacy of the government, and the degree to which you owe that government any respect.
On January 1, 2021 at 10:29 pm, Jimmy the Saint said:
We’re about to experience the great lesson of Russian history: “And then things got worse.”
On January 2, 2021 at 12:42 am, Mike Ockizard said:
Roe V Wade was not about abortion or abortion rights. It was about medical privacy and Roe never had an abortion.
On January 2, 2021 at 9:19 am, revjen45 said:
Roberts’s concern is for the institutional prestige of the Sacred Shysters, not the Bill of Rights.
On January 2, 2021 at 10:42 am, X said:
Yes.
Herschel makes a good point that people would do well to listen to. Gun people falsely assume that the Supreme Court will open the Constitution, read the Second Amendment, and declare “Well, that settles it, then! The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed!”
You’re going to be sorely disappointed. The Federal Courts have been upholding “infringements” ever since 1934 and nothing has stopped them yet. The courts are NOT on YOUR side — they are part of the government, and they are staffed with Harvard and Yale elites, the vast majority of whom would rather walk barefoot over broken glass than touch a gun.
Do you think that during their student days, any of these guys went to the range on Saturday afternoon to shoot their ARs when they weren’t studying under (((Larry Tribe))) at Harvard Law? Do you think they have underfolder AKs with 30-round magazines for truck guns when they go golfing at a $25,000-a-year country club with billionaire CEOs?
Get real.
Remember, the elites of 1787, like George Washington, were themselves “gun people,” which is why they enshrined gun rights in the Constitution. Today’s elites are NOT gun people. Expect them to rule accordingly…