The Second Amendment Foundation has been granted summary judgement in a federal challenge of California’s One-Gun-A-Month (OGM) purchase law. U.S. District Judge William Q. Hayes stayed his decision for 30 days for the defendants to facilitate an appeal. [More]
And thumbing noses at Bruen will drag on and on and on with the hopes that Republicans blow the election and Democrats can reshape SCOTUS to reverse it.
The Supreme Court has no power to enforce its decisions. It cannot call out the troops or compel Congress or the president to obey. The Court relies on the executive and legislative branches to carry out its rulings. In some cases, the Supreme Court has been unable to enforce its rulings.
I’d need a lawyer to weigh in on whether they could charge inferior court judges with contempt for disregarding their rulings, and they’d still be dependent on the other branches. I fear the only “legal” remedy is impeachment, for which Republicans have neither the power nor the appetite.
So now we have to see what Hayes says in a month, and then see who initiates an appeal, then lather, rinse, repeat.
Whether or not the SCOTUS could charge a lower courts with something is irrelevant. They couldn’t enforce it. The courts are totally dependant on the executive branch to actually accomplish anything. The executive branch is corrupted to the core. So any ruling or issue they don’t agree with is ignored. The ugly reality few want to accept is we are WAY past the point where there are any legal or peaceful means available to us to address the problem. And the left knows this so they have no intentions on dialing back their crime spree.
Note that no place in the Constitution is SCOTUS empowered to decide which laws are constitutional and which are not. So they’re certainly no strangers to exercising powers they do not rightfully have. They simply said in Marbury v Madison that it needed doing, no one else was doing it, so they would. Congress could have used the means laid out in the Constitution to amend same such that SCOTUS usurpation of that power became legit, but they haven’t and probably won’t.
What would SCOTUS do if we devolved into a situation not unlike what Haiti is going through today? Hopefully, we’ll never find out.