Notes from the Resistance
Everett mayor wins $1.1M in defamation settlement, local paper agrees to shut down – Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria alleged The Everett Leader Herald knowingly fabricated quotes and published false accusations against him. [More]
The guy’s a goddam gun-grabber and they gotta make stuff up about him? That’s gotta be a real Democrat dilemma, when you can’t go after him for what he’s really guilty of because you share that agenda.
[Via Edmund M]
The 2A Attorneys in Gray v. Jennings Delaware “assault weapon” ban litigation have filed a submission to SCOTUS as the three AR-15/Magazine ban cases continue their move through the Court’s consideration process. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner discusses. [Watch]
That’s a counterpoint to this.
January sounds like the month we’ll learn either way if this and related cases will be considered/consolidated or punted again.
[Via Jess]
The petition for a writ of certiorari should be denied. [More]
The state that inflicted Joe Biden onto the political scene says banning semiautomatic rifles and magazines doesn’t infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Mark W. Smith ties it in with related cases SCOTUS is considering. And I continue to be suspicious of relying on “common use.”
[Via Jess]
While the lawsuit was only brought by New Jersey and Minnesota, the “larger coalition that will be working together includes 16 states in total,” the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said to Newsweek. These states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, as well as Washington, D.C. [More]
As long as the Supreme Court lets them get away with infringements, it will only get worse.
Until the Justice Department steps up and defends all civil rights from state denials, the only “legal” defense will be what the gun groups can scrape up from the same overburdened donors. I’m afraid Pam Bondi has established a record of being more the type that defends employer infringements. My guess is Trump is more interested in what she can do to squash bugs like Bragg.
[Via Jess]
Hawaii Judges Say ‘to Hell with the Constitution’ [More]
It’s a Kapu Tradition!
Imagine filing lawsuit against Glock, getting five paragraphs in, and admitting you fundamentally don’t understand how the gun even works [More]
So… are New Jersey “Only Ones” going to give up theirs?
[Via WiscoDave]
Personally Made Firearm Lawsuit Update [More]
As noted here, after he’s inaugurated, we need to press Trump on having DOJ defend 2A the same way it would against other civil rights violations.
Why would Yoran go easy on a black felony murderer while throwing the book at a defendant she refers to as “the white man”? To ask the question is to answer it. Hopefully, she will soon face justice herself. [More]
At least Javert had self-awareness and decency to drown himsel in the Seine…
[Via bondmen]
And this just in:
Not guilty verdict in Daniel Penny trial [More]
[Via Michael G]
There comes a point where it’s simply unbelievable to say that judges actually think that way and aren’t perfectly aware of the tyranny they’re willing parts of.
[Via Jess]
The cartels exist because Mexico wants them to. [More]
And the only way to get rid of feral hogs is to hunt them down and eradicate them.
Why SCOTUS Should Nuke Mexico’s Bogus Lawsuit Against U.S. Gun Manufacturers [More]
I think they will, and in a rational world it would be 7 -0. OOPS.
I also think those bringing such suits ought to pay. Bigly.
[Via Dan Gifford]
I. There is a long-running and intractable dispute in the lower courts over whether the Second Amendment allows the government to ban arms that are in common use by law-abiding citizens. II. Heller clearly teaches that arms in common use by law-abiding citizens cannot be banned. III. This case is an ideal vehicle to resolve this dispute. [More]
What’s to stop “common use” from allowing future developments to be banned?
[Via Jess]
United States Supreme Court denied Certiorari in Oakland Tactical versus Howell Township out of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. [Watch]
Which means SCOTUS will accept lower courts denying rights and thumbing their noses.
[Via Jess]