yooo I was just cited in a federal opinion & I'm ecstatic!
I argued that the Supreme Court's originalist guns jurisprudence is asinine so lower court judges don't know how to apply it, & in footnote 17 this judge is like YEAH lmao
https://www.scribd.com/document/823144162/In-the-US-District-Court-for-the-Southern-District-of-M-2025
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/second-amendment-cases-bruen-rahimi-confusion/
I argued that the Supreme Court's originalist guns jurisprudence is asinine so lower court judges don't know how to apply it, & in footnote 17 this judge is like YEAH lmao
https://www.scribd.com/document/823144162/In-the-US-District-Court-for-the-Southern-District-of-M-2025
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/second-amendment-cases-bruen-rahimi-confusion/
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2 - They are ideologically captured and owe their allegiance first to those holding their purse strings; Leonard Leo, the Heritage Foundation, Koch network, and so on. It's easy to not understand something when your lavish gifts depend on it.
I'm no legal expert, but I expect they'd do well to cite you a lot more often!
What's sad is that you all know this, and keep trying to take away people's constitutional rights anyway.
If the State asserted an interest in public safety, the restriction was justifiable. Public safety is always good, and the Second
The SC first addressed this in _Miller_ in 1939, finding there is an individual right to bear arms. Lower courts proceeded to ignore it entirely. In _Heller_, 2008, same. That is how you got _Bruen_, where the SC does what it can to force courts to treat a
If they were truly “originalists“, five of them wouldn’t even be there, would they? I don’t put much stock in anything they say. js
Proud of you for showing them up.
It IS asinine!
Just sayin'
Really helpful to avoid context.
If you don't ignore that context, then you realize that we obviated the rationale when we created a standing army.
Not every drunk at the pub.
Genuinely happy for you.
(And thanks for your work. It's so needed.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulations_for_the_Order_and_Discipline_of_the_Troops_of_the_United_States
Well done!
I'd be all kinds of proud of that!!!
I'm surprised anyone could be an actual originalist on SCOTUS b/c of that. It flies in the face of our laws.
Who else is doing it like him? Anyone?
Your going to be a real big shot one day. 😀