Posted on 02/23/2024 8:34:49 AM PST by marktwain
Strange events are occurring in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In the Ninth Circuit, it has become clear that when a three-judge panel finds in favor of the Second Amendment as a fundamental part of the Bill of Rights, the case will be sent to an en banc panel to be reversed by the full court. Most of the time, the Ninth Circuit would wait for the three-judge panel to publish their decision before sending the case to the en banc panel. In the Fourth Circuit, en banc panels are snatching cases away from three-judge panels before a decision is made and an opinion is published.
The case of Bianchi v Brown, the Maryland ban on most semi-automatic rifles, was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The Supreme Court’s last landmark Second Amendment decision, Bruen, was decided in June 2022. SCOTUS then granted certiorari to Bianchi v Brown, vacated the Fourth Circuit’s decision, and remanded the case back to the Fourth Circuit to be reconsidered under the Bruen clarification of the Heller decision.
Bianchi v Brown was given to a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit. The three-judge panel heard oral arguments in the case on December 6, 2022. If you listen to the oral arguments, the case for the State of Maryland seems weak. More than a year later, the three-judge panel had not issued a decision. On January 12, 2024, the Fourth Circuit took the case from the three-judge panel, moving it to be heard before the entire court (en banc). This could delay the case for another year or more. The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed an appeal to SCOTUS, explicitly complaining about the games the Fourth Circuit is playing with the case.
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When they come for your guns you have to shoot them. Eventually they will stop coming.
*paraphrase of Solzhenitsyn: “and how we burned in the camps…”*
Nathan Bedford Forrest had a better method.
Why don’t we all ignore any BS decision that we don’t agree with, just like old uncle Joe.
He was here in CA campaigning and he mentioned that not even the supreme court could stop him from voiding another round of student debt.
Often, Reagan judges and Grabby Poppy judges have "grown in office", and play for the other team.
One indication is that they didn't retire or take senior status when Dubya or Trump was in office to appoint a successor.
Current composition of the court As of July 8, 2023: # Title Judge Duty station Born Term of service Appointed by Active Chief Senior 48 Chief Stooge Albert Diaz Charlotte, NC 1960 2010–present 2023–present Obama 30 Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III Charlottesville 1944 1984–present 1996–2003 Reagan 33 Circuit Judge Paul V. Niemeyer Baltimore, MD 1941 1990–present — — G.H.W. Bush 40 Circuit Stooge Robert Bruce King Charleston, WV 1940 1998–present — — Clinton 41 Circuit Stooge Roger Gregory Richmond, VA 1953 2000–present 2016–2023 Clinton/G.W. Bush 44 Circuit Judge G. Steven Agee Salem, VA 1952 2008–present — — G.W. Bush 47 Circuit Stooge James Andrew Wynn Raleigh, NC 1954 2010–present — — Obama 50 Circuit Stooge Stephanie Thacker Charleston, WV 1965 2012–present — — Obama 51 Circuit Stooge Pamela Harris Bethesda, MD 1962 2014–present — — Obama 52 Circuit Judge Julius N. Richardson Columbia, SC 1976 2018–present — — Trump 53 Circuit Judge A Marvin Quattlebaum Jr Greenville, SC 1964 2018–present — — Trump 54 Circuit Judge Allison Jones Rushing Asheville, NC 1982 2019–present — — Trump 55 Circuit Judge Toby J. Heytens Alexandria, VA 1975 2021–present — — Biden 56 Circuit Stooge DeAndrea G. Benjamin Columbia, SC 1972 2023–present — — Biden 57 Circuit Stooge vacant — — — — — ====================== Senior Circuit Stooges 38 Senior Circuit Diana Gribbon Motz Baltimore, MD 1943 1994–2022 — 2022–present Clinton 39 Senior Circuit William Byrd Traxler Jr Greenville, SC 1948 1998–2018 2009–16 2018–present Clinton 46 Senior Circuit Barbara Milano Keenan Alexandria, VA 1950 2010–2021 — 2021–present Obama 49 Senior Circuit Henry F. Floyd Spartanburg, SC 1947 2011–2021 — 2021–present Obama
Appeals from District of Maryland Eastern District of North Carolina Middle District of North Carolina Western District of North Carolina District of South Carolina Eastern District of Virginia Western District of Virginia Northern District of West Virginia Southern District of West Virginia
Two reasons:
First: Joe is in office. The Democrats/Deep State control most of the government and media. They have the power to ignore what they don't like and enforce what they do like.
Second. What you suggest is what the left wants and loves. A complete breakdown of the legal system.
They want chaos.
We want order and the rule of law. Most people are with us.
This is what happens when you make your Rights secondary to some black robed “priesthood”...
Had we just stood up to them 90 years ago... We wouldn’t have nearly as many problems as we do today.
We either put up with their unConstitutional laws... or we FIGHT back.
Our legal system is a travesty. It NEEDS to be broken down and rebuilt on a Constitutionally accurate footing.
FDR ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility.
When you lose elections, how do you propose we "stand up"?
Lots of people opposed FDR. FDR got the FCC, and the "Progressives" took control of the radio networks, which became the television networks.
We have been actively manipulated and lied to by an "elite" since at least the 1960's.
Now technology has undercut their control of the information flow, and people are finding the truth.
“When in the course of human events...”
Go back and re-read the Declaration of Independence. The Left has been using it as a checklist...
Good point. Thank you.
Since we handed complete control of our universities and military academies over to radical, Godless, anti-Constitutional Communists, the spawning grounds for our entire political, judicial, medical, taxing, law enforcement, military, and intelligence bureaucracies, not to mention the MEDIA, the ability to create change will require a direct intervention from Jesus Christ Himself.
That’s why The Lord’s Prayer should be prayed every day by all of His saints.
Matthew 6:9-13
King James Version
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
JHVH is equal to the task.
Have faith.
But, also remember that while He backed David up in the contest against Goliath... David STILL needed to pickup a rock and sling it.
We did in 1861....and not because of slavery!
Yes.
Got an artile in the back of my mind... David the marksman..
“One shot. One kill. No remorse. I decide.”
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Hat tip to Simo. If it comes to that, I will try to beat his record.
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