Posted on 06/15/2020 8:09:46 AM PDT by Stravinsky
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear appeals of a slew of cases involving gun laws, dealing a blow to Second Amendment activists who seek to expand the rights of gun owners.
In an order released Monday morning, the court denied petitions for appeals of 10 cases.
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Thomas, in a written dissent Monday, took issue with his colleagues on the Supreme Court rejecting the appeal of a New Jersey business owner, Thomas Rogers, who was challenging his state’s requirement that a person show “justifiable need” before being issued a handgun permit.
Rogers services automatic teller machines in “high-crime areas,” Thomas wrote, and wanted permission to carry a handgung for self-defense.
Thomas note that the Second Amendment protecting ” ′ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, ′ ” but “in several jurisdictions throughout the country, law-abiding citizens have been barred from exercising the fundamental right to bear arms because they cannot show that they have a ‘justifiable need’ or ‘good reason’ for doing so.”
“One would think that such an onerous burden on a fundamental right would warrant this Court’s review,” Thomas wrote.
“This Court would almost certainly review the constitutionality of a law requiring citizens to establish a justifiable need before exercising their free speech rights,” he wrote.
“And it seems highly unlikely that the Court would allow a State to enforce a law requiring a woman to provide a justifiable need before seeking an abortion. But today, faced with a petition challenging just such a restriction on citizens’ Second Amendment rights, the Court simply looks the other way,” Thomas wrote.
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Roberts is ducking these cases so he doesn’t have to recognize that the 2nd Amendment says what it does.
The “Roberts Court” is swinging wildly to the left.
This has not been a good day.
Thinking of their recent decisions, I’d rather these cases be considered after RBG is gone. If she ever leaves.
God bless Justice Thomas.
The liberals on the court hold a 5-4 majority, since Roberts has openly joined the liberals. We need another conservative on the court.
They won’t take 2A cases but yet they just gave their blessing to the LGBQT scum.
' Nobody is seeking to "expand" the rights of gun owners. They are trying to preserve and restore those rights that are already there!
Gives me a bad feeling about the DACA decision yet to come.
RBG is not the problem. She is as predictable as the sun rising in the east.
The problem rests on “Our side”.
America’s Robed Mullahs. We’ve seen this story before. Throughout history.
Why is that always the case ?!!
We are well and truly f’d.
The SC not hearing these cases is totally unreasonable, particularly in light of the need for personal protection when the police are ordered to stand down during the current unrest.
Justice Thomas, as usual, is on the right side of freedom. We need several more like him.
2 maybe 3 more, Gorsuch joined Roberts on the LGBTQIAXYZ decision.
Liberals: “Abortion is a right therefore it must be subsidized by government.”
Also liberals: “Keeping and bearing arms isn’t a personal right and should be abolished.”
Me: “I want equal application of the law. When will I receive my government-provided arms?”
Simple - just assert your title vii civil rights and claim the gun dealer and this the state refuses to sell you a handgun based on your race.
Problem Solved.
In a way it has. It has shown how important it is that a Liberal president is never elected again. It also shows the danger of RINOs going along with judicial appointments from such a president.
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