The Supreme Court has rejected several appeals from crucial Second Amendment cases, once again passing up the chance to make a substantive ruling.
No Second Amendment Judgement From The Supreme Court In 10 Years
The Supreme Court denied petitions for appeal in 10 cases in total, with the cases that were denied asking big questions on the Second Amendment.
Some of these included: whether banning interstate handgun sales was a violation of the Second Amendment; whether Illinois or Massachusetts can ban so-called “assault rifles” and high capacity magazines; and if there is a constitutional right to carry a firearm outside the home.
It follows the non-judgement last week of a case regarding a now-defunct New York state law, with the justices ruling that there was no need for one, given the specific legislation no longer existed.
However, Justices Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas, all said they would have sided against the state in the case.
The last time the Supreme Court made a substantive judgement regarding the Second Amendment was in 2010, with the critical DC vs Heller decision affirming the right to own a handgun for self-defense two years prior.
This means that the Supreme Court has not properly touched the issue for at least decade.
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Thomas: ‘The Court Simply Looks The Other Way’
Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh slammed the Supreme Court for their inaction on the issue.
In a dissenting opinion for the rejection of an appeal by a New Jersey resident, Thomas argued that “one would think that such an onerous burden on a fundamental right would warrant this Court’s review.”
“This Court would almost certainly review the constitutionality of a law requiring citizens to establish a justifiable need before exercising their free speech rights,” Thomas continued, adding that “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.”
I couldn’t have put it better myself.
Given the fact that the Supreme Court now has a pretty solid conservative majority, it needs to tackle these issues before the Democrats have a chance to appoint insane leftist judges that would let the state and federal governments trample all over our right to bear arms.
True, the right to self defense is God given and inalienable.
Does not change the facts, when we vote our beliefs and win the eternal bureaucrat joins the socialist in a four year disruption of the legislative and executive remedies for which we voted. When the President elected by the people following the Constitution, so called Republicans oppose him. The President appoints jurists to the Supreme Court and in less than a year they reveal their Communist sympathies. Members of the joint chiefs of our armed forces defy their oaths and refuse to obey Presidential orders. City and state elected officials refuse to allow equal justice under law. No taxation without representation? Over fifty percent of the population are allowed to vote without ever paying any Federal Taxes. We have reached an impass where there is no peaceful resolution to the enslavement of the working middle class and the small business owner..
Oh, he’d try to put Oblamo there, but he’d get him confused with his drug addict son and appoint him to the girl scouts board, once he figured out where he was and what he was supposed to do
I thought Gorsuch was the great Constitutionalist??? Another John Roberts.
Oops!
Ah, but how many of the other amendments provide the power to protect the rest of them? The first is most important because it provides for free men and women to voice their demands of their government peaceably. The second is next because it provides the power to free men and women to change government when number one doesn’t work.
The People have the final say on everything. The government exists to serve us, and it IS us. We give our consent to the violation of our rights when we do nothing. When the government’s actions (or inactions) become so egregious that The People understand the government to be a tyrannical force, they have the power to change it. The power is there, and it was recognized specifically in the second amendment. Because it is so necessary to retain the ability to fight the government with force, if necessary, it is particularly egregious to violate anyone’s right to have weapons comparable with the military. When you give up that ability, you relegate yourself to the whims and agendas of a small number of citizens who may or may not have your best interests at heart. Do not give up your arms, patriots. Love liberty more.
The cadre of Justices that decided to not hear the cases simply verified that the men have no cajones, and the women are incompetent wenches. They are there to make decisions not allow states to do whatever they please in flaunting the Constitution..
Strategic problem with this appropriate approach, it allows changes to any part of the US Constitution, including the 2nd Amendment. Risky.
Became that by definition with their ObamaCare ruling – “Its a TAX” when both sides argued in SCOTUS that is was absolutely not a TAX.
I hope most are legal ghost guns (made before Federal Records around 1970)… The is part of why the Lefty-Liberals don’t like private sales of long guns. No need to register.
Time for all Conservatives to get their Concealed Pistol License and ARM UP !! The Lefty Liberals already disarmed themselves… The last Civil War the Democrats started was to keep their slaves. this one they will start to keep their base indentured. Short war with one side being armed.
Justice Roberts is owned by the demoncrats. He’s proving it time and again since writing his nonsensical, convoluted justification of Obamacare. Most notably after then POTUS Obama publicly issued a veiled threat pursuant to his illegal adaptation of his children.Â
Again, when Chief Roberts said nothing about the same sex marriage law passage in June 2015, with full knowledge Justices Bader-Ginsberg and Kegan had presided over same-sex marriages…Kegan as recently as September 2014. He should have had them recused.
And Roberts most recent sell-out during POTUS Trump’s Impeachment trial, when he refused senators request for documents to be officially revealed.
BTW: One of the real reasons RINOs and demoncrats want POTUS Trump defeated India November, is Bader-Ginsberg is 87, in I’ll health; Justice Breyer signals he wants to retire. A Trump win would ensure a staunch conservative court for decades.
Crazy. I thought the SAME EXACT THING.
Roberts needs to be REMOVED as he is being BLACKMAILED by the left due to the ILLEGAL adoption of 2 Irish kids…..!!!!
I’m o scholar least of all a legal one. To me the second amendment reads pretty clear. I fail to see how not hearing the case is bad for us as to the second amendment. I have guns I intend to keep !
These decisions and the just handed down Gay rights decision should be reassuring to all Americans. It shows that the Court is still about the existing laws and not political influences. If the Court determined that the lower courts had properly applied existing legal precedents, there is no need to rule further.
In any other instance I would also welcome a chance to appoint another conservative judge but with all the unrest going on right now…I would be afraid of what would happen w/whoever Trump might appoint. There was nearly fighting in the streets w/Kavanaugh, which was absolutely ridiculous. They are still convinced that he’s a “rapist”.
There was an article showing several pages of his ledger with “John Roberts” being listed 2-3x. Kay Griegs was married to a joint chiefs general – said they are ALL sodomites and pedophiles…..the ‘wives’ are all for show. This is our ‘government’.
well GEORGE W BUSH is still screwing us American citizens…are you true-blue repubs done with this filthy sob yet? he has been working against our US Constitution since Jan 2001…his very 1st initiative as POTUS was to cede the education reform legislation to none other than Teddy Kennedy!
I am starting to think that Gorsuch wasn’t such a god pick and Roberts was a disastrous pick!
Maybe the Supreme Court isn’t as supreme as people think. If they are shunning their responsibility, maybe some changes should be made. I suggest a 20 year term, not life time for a start.
Any person accused by someone in a police intervention is considered guilty until PROVED innocent, from the police viewpoint. It was the reverse until the 60s. So, my counsel is to always tell your side of any altercation first, accusing the party of the first part.
That way, they go to jail while you go home. The moment the initiative is taken from you, you have to spend time and resources to clear your name. The Law is malleable; it means what the authorities decide it means.
We are in a society that has ‘relative’ interpretations for anything and everything, so keep a low profile and always say ‘sir’ to any officer in any conversation.
These worthless, gutless, poor excuse for so-called Justices. They showed the yellow belly colors today, when, they refused to view those 10 cases dealing with the Second Amendment. Today, the majority of this country lost respect for you and the circus court you run. You were so scared for your own worthless safety, that you put it first, before the people who wanted to help. Absolute cowards! Sickens me to the core.
Trump supporters need to do all they can to attend the first rally to show overwhelming support and turn the filth ridden leftist tide doing all possible to destroy momentum and success Trump has installed back into our country. My business in its 40 years has never been as successful for myself and employees as it has been since Trump has been OUR PRESIDENT. ~Do all you can to be in Tulsa and join the largest vocal crowd at a rally~~ EVER
If the Democrats want to cancel the 2nd amendment then ok ……..just as soon as they take the guns off the criminals and gang members ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WANT TO DEFUND THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS otherwise I’ll keep my guns for home and self defense .
I wouldn’t call it a “devastating blow”. It’s more of a sissy-slap.
I don’t necessarily think this is a bad thing. To me, what it is saying when they won’t hear these cases is that the 2nd Amendment is so clear, they shouldn’t need to hear anything about it!!! SOOOOOO, regardless of what my state, or any other state, passes as far as Anti-Gun laws, I’ll simply rebel!!
I think something bad is going to be created out of all this political strive now going on and this country will not be able to put the ink back into the bottle once it starts
You mean you Ammosexuals haven’t realized that there are OTHER amendments than #2?
I stand with you on this.
Here’s the bottom line. This court or a future Socialist/Democratic court can abolish the 2nd. Amendment. Won’t mean a thing to me. I WON’T give up a single weapon (all legally owned) I feel comfortable that millions of Americans will have my back.
I don’t believe the left would allow him to step down at this point (unless he was extremely ill or something). He is the left’s trump card.
I hadn’t heard about that. Thank you. Between the Lolita Express and those two illegal adoptions, it is easy to see why Benedict Roberts is on the take. (Thank you, Bush 43.)
All the more reason why we need a huge turnout for the November election. Do you want Quid Pro Quo Joe Biden appointing Supreme Court Justices? Talk about scary . . . !
Yiu are entirely correct about Chief Justice Benedict Roberts. He pulled some chicanery in adopting two Irish newborns in Mexico under mysterious circumstances. Obama discovered this, and Roberts has been on the take ever since. (It is illegal for foreigners to adopt Irish infants.)
“John Roberts” appeared on the guest list in Jeffrey Epsteins ledger. Sounds like he is compromised.
If they have dirt on him, he should have the integrity to resign instead of screwing over the whole United States.
Too many cases where definitions that have been around for hundreds, thousands and more years are being redefined on the basis of nothing in the Constitution. Dred Scott is property, human lives can be killed and parted out, marriage can be spread out to anything that satisfies a given person’s lust and biology is completely ignored for delusional people.
Makes me wonder who owns the supreme court
Time to abolish the Supreme Court?
I believe in karma, but I am going to violate that rule and fervently wish for the early demise of Ruth Ginsberg.
Supreme Court turning into Kangaroo Court !
It definitely appears that the Left has “had something on Roberts” for a while now. Evidence is the tortured reasoning by which he decided Obamacare was a justifiable tax, and helped it become law. Still, he seems to be a good man, so perhaps he needs to consider stepping down at some point, or just try to muster the integrity to refuse to buckle to pressure, let the chips fall where they may…
I believe if Roberts has a problem with such cases, he should recuse himself. Even if the Court rules 4-4. In most cases, there would be enough on the conservative side to rule 5-3. That’s all it would take.
Careful – while Justice Roberts appears to be a conservative, he has consistently delivered to the Left what they demand, when it is most important. Schumer’s threat against the Supreme Court was, I believe, primarily aimed at Roberts, who apparently has a problem in his background regarding illegal adoption that might be grounds to remove him from the court. That’s called “leverage”.
The Supreme Court did not properly address the 2nd Amendment in the Heller case. It only ruled on a few specific words of the Amendment, whether the Right in question belongs to The People ( as it clearly says ), disregarding the rest of it, in order to craft a ruling that allows what they call “reasonable” restrictions on that Right, without clarifying what is “reasonable”.
A proper ruling would have included the “shall not be infringed” part as well, with all the ramifications of that phrase.
There is no prior restriction on a Right that “shall not be infringed”. The only reasonable restriction is against those who have abused the Right, demonstrating they cannot be trusted to exercise it reasonably, with proper criminal penalties for that abuse.
In the Miller case of 1939, the court affirmed that the Right to keep and bear combat weaponry would be upheld even in the case of a former bank robber and current moonshiner, Miller. The Court opinion stated that Right would be recognized if evidence were presented showing his sawed-off shotgun might have some usefulness in combat.
I’m not going to get into a flap about this. I know Patriotic Americans will take up arms before they’ll let our 2nd Amendment fall. I believe the Supreme Court knows this too. Thus, inaction.