Notes from the Resistance
A Massachusetts judge openly confessed in court that she knew she was rolling the dice by giving a light sentence to a career criminal with a 20-year rap sheet packed with violence, guns, and assault convictions. She did it anyway. Now Tyler Brown is back in custody after opening fire with 50 to 60 rounds on a busy Cambridge roadway, critically injuring two innocent drivers. [More]
So… what do you think’s gonna happen to her?
[Via bondmen]
In short, prosecutors often decide who will go to prison for a long period of time, regardless of the will of the voters. It gets even a little stranger. Though many states initially stripped judges of any discretion under habitual offender laws, the courts pushed back. For example, a case in California (People v. Romero) ended up with the California Supreme Court declaring that trial courts have discretion to dismiss or strike prior strike allegations in Three Strikes cases, either on the court’s own motion or on motion of the prosecutor (even over the prosecutor’s objection). Stated more bluntly, trial judges can creatively thumb their noses at three-strike law requirements. [More]
There’s only one law that should matter with violent habitual offenders.
A Dominican illegal alien who is also a murderer in his home country, with both a deportation order and an Interpol Red Notice arrest warrant, was ordered released by a Biden judge after he was arrested by ICE. [More]
They do it with impunity — for now. Let violent leftists prod the country into tit-for-tat and some people are going to remember past “official” injustices.
[Via Michael G]
Two judges rule Trump admin must keep SNAP benefits in place as shutdown drags on [More]
Translation: Apparatchiks just bought Schumer time to continue the shutdown.
Trump’s ‘war-ravaged Portland’ National Guard deployment halted by federal judge over authority concerns – Judge Karin Immergut, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019, granted the TRO blocking the federal action. [More]
Crappy, disloyal appointments are what screwed him — and us — in his first administration. Who got her on the president’s radar and then championed her for nomination, especially since Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley were OK with her? And does that person still have the president’s ear?
Why the Supreme Court Fight Over Nationwide Injunctions Matters for Gun Owners [More]
It figures the “our democracy” people want one of their apparatchik’s opinions to be binding over all of us, no matter what we think.
With “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in birthright citizen case with implications for 2A. [Watch]
I was hoping some prominent voice in the gun adovcacy community would finally address how immigration demographics threaten 2A, but no such luck. Instead, we get Sonia Sotomayor disingenuously playing devil’s advocate for nationwide injunctions by asking what would happen if a president ordered gun bans and confiscations.
The answer wouldn’t be a legal one.
It hasn’t been done because they wouldn’t dare.
[Via Jess]
The administration should use what it can control as leverage over what it cannot. The president is at the apex of his power in deciding which foreigners to admit. This is true from both a legal and practical standpoint. He should issue a proclamation under 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) declaring that no new immigrants will get in until everyone who should be deported is gone. [More]
I like it, but why are we talking about this on a “gun blog”?