Category: courts

New York, New York, It’s a Wonderful Town!

Girlfriend of thug who was stabbed to death by New York City bodega worker WON’T face charges for knifing him three times because ‘prosecutors say she was defending her beau’ [More]

The poor worker is not so lucky.

And the productive sector not only puts up with it, they vote their collectivist oppressors in.

At least tell me she’ll still be able to get all the abortions she wants…

And tangentially-related:

NYC releases PSA for residents in the event of a nuclear attack [More]

Radioactive flesh-eating zombie apocalypse to follow. People on the other side are going to block off the bridges, right?

Does kinda make you wonder who knows what…

[Via WiscoDave]

At Issue

Particularly after Heller and McDonald, as recently reaffirmed by Bruen, the government certainly cannot prevent Petitioner from exercising his Second Amendment right to keep firearms in the home. And the Second Circuit may not use Torvicia’s exercise of that constitutional right to render him vulnerable to government searches and seizures of his
firearms which violate Fourth Amendment protections but for some atextual, judge-invented special needs exception. [More]

“Single issue” apologists and flat-out deceivers take note.

[Via Jess]

We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

Hoover’s lawyers asked Howard last week to rule that the National Firearms Act, a 1934 law that restricted machine gun ownership by creating a tax and license requirement on them, conflicts with the U [sic] Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantee of a right to bear arms.  [More]

If the standard is whether NFA is consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and historical understanding, of course, it conflicts.

Whether the rulers will admit that or not is a whole ‘nother story.

[Via Jess]

New York, New York, It’s a Wonderful Town

Man jailed for murder by left-wing DA for stabbing attacker in self-defense [More]

You ever get the feeling the wrong people are on trial?

UPDATE

GoFundMe deletes page for NYC bodega clerk who fatally stabbed attacker [More]

I have to tell ya, Curtis Wells using that platform concerned me because GoFundMe’s self-created woke rep discourages people who don’t want to give them their cut from contributing. I need to find out if he has a fund set up that accepts contributions another way.

[Via Michael G]

Citizen Disarmament They Can Agree With

They say that the current restrictions for concealed weapons (schools, bars, stadiums, government buildings) are justifiable and constitutional, but the ban on carrying while on public transportation is not. [More]

Well, there goes any sympathy I might have had for them…

What’s with the impulse to give away the rest of the store as long as they get the item they came in for?

[Via Andy M]

So Much for ‘the Supreme Law of the Land’…

Montana has a progressive state supreme court, but a Republican legislature and governor. The result? The state supreme court is striking down laws passed by the legislature — such as gun-rights legislation. Today’s decision of the Montana Supreme Court in Board of Regents v. State, written by Justice Laurie McKinnon, ruled that the state constitution gives the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education authority over the Montana University System, and it was thus unconstitutional for the Legislature (in a bill called HB 102) to preempt the University System’s ban on carrying guns on campus… [More]

Bruen’s “sensitive places” writ large…

And the judges are elected, so don’t look for the state that gave us “pro-gun Democrats” Jon Tester and Max Baucus to throw the bums out. Especially with all the newly arrived nest foulers from California!

[Via Michael G]

I Confess This One Troubles Me

Ninth Circuit Panel Sends California “Assault Weapons” Ban Challenge Back to District Court, so the District Court can reconsider it in light of the Supreme Court’s new Bruen precedent. [More]

I don’t see where “self-defense” alone will cut it without a strong core purpose argument.

I do see this:

The firearms that the law in question prohibits are, in virtually every state of the Union, exactly the sorts of lawful weapons in common use that law abiding people possess at home for lawful purposes; and exactly what they would bring to service in militia duty should such cause be necessary.

Here’s the case history thus far.

If this goes to SCOTUS, and it probably will, we’ll see if any briefs expand on that, and then if the high court will hear it.

No Problem Here

Supreme Court rules out suing police for Miranda violations [More]

Maybe it’s just me, but I always figured if you were dumb enough to admit anything to the police you deserved the same sympathy as the lunatic who climbs into the hyena enclosure at the zoo.

The thought of a proven sexual predator being able to sue the productive sector (yeah, it’s not “the police” who will pay) because he didn’t know ratting yourself out would hurt is not something the Founders ever contemplated.

[Via Mack H]

No One Aids Like Gascon…

‘He’s the criminals’ champion’: LA Deputy DA Shea Sanna slams his woke boss George Gascon for encouraging thugs to ‘commit more crimes’ amid a spate of soft sentences – as DA faces a recall [More]

True, but we’re still talking ab0ut an “Only Ones” culture. Don’t expect anyone to publicly consider armed citizens to be anything but part of the problem.

[Via bondmen]

Who Will Judge the Judge?

TYRANNY: Michigan GOP Candidate for Governor, Ryan Kelley, Has Guns Taken by Judge for Standing Outside the Capitol on Jan 6 [More]

And the compelling state interest to show he is a violent danger risk to himself and others is…?

If you’re willing to eviscerate the Second Amendment, there’s nothing to stop you from eviscerating the First. And this one, clerking for Merrick Garland after graduation,  has never not had her nose in the plunder trough, so coercion for political aims is all she knows.

If they do somehow manage not to blow the “red wave,” which Republican will be willing to strap ’em on, endure the false charges of “racism” and lead the effort to impeach Judge Robin Meriweather?

[Via Michael G]

Back in Action

Keefe said the shooting took place just seconds after the four beat Rivera-Perez and threatened him, his wife and two young children. Connor also aimed a gun at Rivera-Perez’s wife. “Make no mistake about it, they attacked him and his family. They brought war against him and his family,” Keefe said. The attorney also contended that the bullet had entered Connor’s body from the side, not through his back. [More]

Sounds justified for a number of reasons, not the least being:

Evidence showed the suspect was shot in the back… and the County Attorney announced that no charges would be brought on the officers.

[Via bondmen]

Wrong-Thinking

In the case of Snyder, Thomas More says he took part in an anonymous company survey in which he did not hold back. He said using the flag for “Gay Pride Month” is an “abomination to God.” Somehow that comment was posted in the company’s intranet, which was not Snyder’s intention, and he was later fired for violating Arconic’s “diversity policy.” [More]

Coming from a policies and procedures background (1981 – 2000), I’d encourage his attorney to subpoena the company’s sexual harassment and hostile workplace policies, including all previous revisions.

[Via Mack H]

Settled Law

The Supreme Court ruled in March that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The case symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. And it is another grim reminder that Americans cannot rely on politically approved lawyers wearing bat suits to save their freedoms. [More]

Using that standard, the government could get away with just about anything.

And generally does.

“Commonsense gun safety laws,” anyone?

[Via bondmen]

The Finest Soros Justice Money Can Buy

A Virginia judge has kicked a George Soros-funded prosecutor off a case involving potentially a dozen burglaries in multiple counties, saying the prosecutor’s office had concealed criminal records to “sell” a plea bargain. [More]

Think they’d do that for a “conservative”?

Do you think the judge might be antisemitic?

[Via Michael G]

Musical ‘Gun-Free Zones’

A quarrel over policy between Nye County commissioners and judges with the Fifth Judicial District Court has now led to a unanimous vote by the board to move the district courts and relocate them to their own dedicated buildings. The decision stems from an order … that states no weapons are allowed in any courthouse facility. [More]

Yeah, it’s a “win,” but without addressing security to and from, it seems like they’re just relocating the gauntlet…

[Via Jess]

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