The NRA just got fantastic news from a former Supreme Court justice
America's gun epidemic is going to get worse.
IAN MILLHISER
NOV 26, 2018, 10:42 AM
The Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller was, at once, a doctrinal earthquake and a somewhat contained storm. Heller held, for the first time in American history, that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. Yet Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion for the Court contained so many caveats and exceptions that many gun regulations remain intact a decade later.
However, in an interview with the New York Times’ Adam Liptak, retired Justice John Paul Stevens suggests that many of those caveats are likely to be wiped away soon. According to Liptak, Stevens “helped persuade Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who was in the majority, to ask for ‘some important changes’ to Justice Scalia’s opinion.”
The result was a passage providing that Heller should not “be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
The upshot of Stevens’ highly unusual revelation — justices, even retired justices, rarely disclose internal Court deliberations — is that there are probably no longer five votes on the Supreme Court who support this language in Heller. A wide range of firearm restrictions intended to keep firearms out of the hands of especially dangerous individuals or to keep them out of “sensitive places such as schools” could soon fall.
https://thinkprogress.org/stevens-nra-kennedy-heller-supreme-court-eb23f34687b3/
Assholes can't even think outside the box that there ruling's make them have blood on there right wing fucking hands.................and at least two of these five right wing libertarian justices don't belong on the bench
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