Originally published at: Even Supreme Court’s Right Wing Expresses Skepticism Towards Proposed Ghost Gun Free-For-All
While the conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court plainly wields an expansive view of gun rights (and a shrinkingly narrow one of agency power), it occasionally butts up against a plea for deregulation with ramifications too extreme for even these justices. Tuesday’s oral arguments in Garland v. VanDerStock seemed to fit that bill: a case…
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Roberts to the 5 other Fascists.
“Remember, we all want a Republican president, let’s not telegraph too much on this one”
Only little longer to go…
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Alternate headline: Supreme Court’s Right Wing Endeavors to Moderate and Tweak its Public Lack of Respect for its Decision Making
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And yet, Alito and Kavanaugh – who today expressed skepticism about unassembled parts in a kit being a gun – consistently express zero hesitation about a handful of undifferentiated zygote cells being a “human being.”
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…Until Nov 5th
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Jesus said nothing of limiting guns but obviously hated abortion, a strict constructionist reading of the bible clearly spells it out…
…the founding father would agree establishing the Bible as the ultimate code was surely their intent…
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Jebus didn’t say anything about abortion, but God himself is an abortionist on demand. Numbers 5:21:
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I suppose next you’re going to tell me one of our founding fathers had an abortion recipie too…
Damn liberals
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Sounds like they’re becoming old-school RINOs now. Don’t they understand the Wheel of Crazy don’t stop? The culture of the party is now to always be taking that one step more towards authoritarianism, nothing will ever be enough.
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For those who don’t get the reference:
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh, too, expressed excessive sympathy for gun manufacturers who simply don’t know the law and may break it accidentally, asking Prelogar for assurances that manufacturers who don’t keep up with the regulations of their industry won’t be criminally prosecuted.
One does not accidentally manufacture a firearm, or its components. Those companies have just as much of a doddam responsibility to keep up with the rules and regs of their chosen trade as anyone else.
What about the electrician who doesn’t keep up with the fire code, or the food truck owner who doesn’t keep up with health regulations? What other industry is shown such deference?
The fact that Kavanaugh is not the worst current Supreme Court Justice has a lot more to do with the intensity of the competition than with his own merits and failings.
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Gun-loving felons must love this court.
Democracy-loving citizens…? Well, try again in a few decades.
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Justice Samuel Alito, who could usually be counted on to help the gun lobby, served up a series of hypotheticals to Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to try to make her argument — that these gun components are no different than a completed gun — sound silly. He mulled whether a blank pad of paper and a pen is a grocery list, whether the assembled ingredients constituted a western omelet.
And a western omelet is a satisfying breakfast regardless of whether you have it at Denny’s or make it at home. It serves the same purpose regardless of origin. Why treat it differently?
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I’m looking forward to Alito’s opinion arguing that blunderbusses were essentially homemade by 17th- to mid-19th-century firearms “enthusiasts,” weren’t regulated, and the law did not require serial numbers. Therefore ….
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Still, the conservatives’ attack was muted and half-hearted. Prelogar’s central warning, that allowing ghost gun makers to circumvent basic regulation here will incentivize all firearms manufacturers to similarly evade serializing and background checking, proved hard to dismiss.
Regardless of how SCOTUS eventually decides, we should be grateful for Liz Prelogar’s ability to articulate a reasonable position on behalf of us citizens.
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It’s why Justice Roberts spends so much time with his hand stroking his chin to signal deep thoughts… or missing understanding other justices
…
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Well, the 2A true believers will retort that electricity and food trucks are not mentioned in the Constitution, bearing of arms is.
The 2nd Amendments was inserted in Constitution by Satan himself.
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Nah, all he really needed to do was to fsck up the last edit. The widespread use of boomsticks was pretty well entrenched in the colonialist experience, but the screwy phrasing of the 2A pretty much precludes any two people reading it and coming to the exact same conclusion about what it means.
And it’s still true today that you gotta keep an eye on those lowly aides with edit access.
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You win the internet again.
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My guess is that ghost guns are a competitive threat to mainstream manufacturers. The industry probably wouldn’t mind seeing them go away.
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