This court has egregiously ruled against precedent in several major cases - often in ways I completely disagree with.
But Bruen (and particularly Bruen + Rahimi) takes the cake in terms of absolutely stupid decisions. Suddenly judges are expected to do the work of American History grad students and, as noted in this excellent writeup, without the benefit of either Congress's words or (assumed) intents - a strange leg to stand on for the originalist/textualist wing of the court.
In the words of the late justice Scalia (words that everyone assume pointed at justice Thomas) "I'm an originalist, but I'm not a nut"
This court has egregiously ruled against precedent in several major cases - often in ways I completely disagree with.
But Bruen (and particularly Bruen + Rahimi) takes the cake in terms of absolutely stupid decisions. Suddenly judges are expected to do the work of American History grad students and, as noted in this excellent writeup, without the benefit of either Congress's words or (assumed) intents - a strange leg to stand on for the originalist/textualist wing of the court.
In the words of the late justice Scalia (words that everyone assume pointed at justice Thomas) "I'm an originalist, but I'm not a nut"
Bruen compounds bad “history” with bad theory and it would be better to simply bury it as wrongly decided as well as unworkable.
Sounds to me like a law created specifically for arbitrary and capricious enforcement.
Yes
Excellent and informative. Thanks for sharing the news we all need to know !
More making it up as they go along to justify whatever they want to justify. Exactly as described by Sotamayor
How many law firms that 😱 surrendered to trump like Paul Weiss, had CEOs in the epstein 📁s?
Thank you for a clear explanation of a steaming pile of legal excrement.