Second Amendment. Until 2008, not once did the Supreme Court find a law to violate the Second Amendment. Then, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court, by a 5-4 margin, declared unconstitutional a 35-year-old District of Columbia ordinance that prohibited private ownership or possession of handguns. Scalia wrote the opinion for the Court. A Supreme Court bench with five Democratic appointees will not extend this protection for gun rights and likely would overrule it, returning to the view that the Second Amendment protects only a right to have guns for the purpose of militia service.
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What might it mean to have five justices on the Supreme Court who were
appointed by Democratic presidents? Since 1970, the year Harry Blackmun
received Senate confirmation, there always have been at least five
justices appointed by a Republican president on the Court. If Merrick
Garland is confirmed to replace Antonin Scalia, he will join Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan as Democratic
appointees to the high Court.
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I have another bone to pick...D.C. is not a State and the residents have none of the guarantees of the State. That is why the Framers wanted an independent district that the States could not infringe upon nor the district infringe upon the States. The district residents can not vote in national elections among other differences. Now if the SC thinks it can ban firearms then if I was in law enforcement I would be the first to tell them to enforce it. Good luck with that kind of dumb shit.
ReplyDeleteAs I've mentioned before, Virginia and Maryland should take their land back.
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