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On Nov. 10, 2022, a judge in the Western District of Texas struck down the federal law that prohibits access to guns for people subject to domestic violence protection orders. He did this based on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v. Bruen, which held that, to be constitutional, a firearm restriction must be analogous to laws that were in existence when the country was founded. In other words, disarming domestic abusers violates the Second Amendment because those types of laws didn’t exist at the founding of the country.
What the actual...
Ironic use of the word "amendment" I see. Surely the fundamentalists should be going back to the zero amendments version?
They love their guns
Yeah, the "originalists" and fundamendalists are mental frankly. "You can't change the constitution, it must all be exactly as written, especially the 2nd amendment, that's the most important original amendment of all". Hearing a Bobart or similar talking about this stuff when she's literally arguing to take away her own vote...
This the constitution thst Trump was going to rip up a couple of days ago?
Listen to this podcast series! Brilliant insight into US constitutional law. Probably my favourite podcast out there - dense and complex stuff made interesting and comprehensible. https://learnconlaw.com/
Also relevant is this episode, from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/podcasts/the-daily/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade.html