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The Supreme Court Down the Stretch
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Mark A. Taff
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So we can thank Justice Clarence Thomas for pulling back the curtain a bit this week when he issued a public dissent from the court�s refusal to hear a challenge to a San Francisco gun control ordinance. This case, Jackson v. City and County of San Francisco, went to conference six times before the court issued an order on Monday denying review. Even without Justice Thomas�s dissenting opinion, which only Justice Antonin Scalia joined, it would have been obvious that something was afoot, but we wouldn�t have known exactly what. |
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teebonicus
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"Seven years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to own a gun."
It did no such thing. It confirmed that the Second Amendment GUARANTEES an individual right to keep and bear arms.
But, a liberal is a liberal is a liberal. According to liberals, we only have the rights GIVEN by government, its edicts, or its rulings.
Can you say IGNORANCE? |
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