A victory for Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in court, at least for now, in the fight over her controversial gun ban. A federal court denied the preliminary injunction against the governor’s health order, allowing for the enforcement against carrying guns in public parks and playgrounds. [More]
He reasoned that the founding era was not the ratification date of the Second Amendment. He claimed the founding era was started in 1868 during the reconstruction era when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified. At that time, gun laws were being passed in the South to prevent formerly enslaved people from obtaining firearms. These racist gun laws are the ones that Judge Urias used in his decision.
Why would he do that, you ask…?
He was nominated by President Joe Biden (D)…
That’s a lot of Republicans who didn’t bother to vote.
[Via Jess]
If he was asked to write a novel incorporating today’s true madness, Kafka would have simply taken a length of rope and a footstool and walked into the woods.
And when the temporary 30-day ban expires, the case will be declared moot, with no decision given nor precedent set.