Supreme Court Allows the Texas Abortion Law to Remain. California Governor Newsom Plans to Draft a Similar Law to Control Assault Weapons/Ghost Guns

@Fukfacewillie To play devil's advocate for a moment... The Supreme Court never even ruled on the 2nd amendment for 70 years until 2008. They didn't think much of it at all.

And not everyone is intended to benefit from the SCOTUS ruling (though everyone is protected under the 1st amendment). Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia stated: “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. [It is] not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”

The Heller decision was far from the blanket endorsement of unlimited gun rights that the gun lobby hoped it might be. Rather, the last decade of post-Heller litigation has demonstrated that the decision was a limited ruling fully compatible with the many lifesaving gun laws that protect us today.
(https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/second-amendment/the-supreme-court-the-second-amendment/)

@Fukfacewillie Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land, and the Second Amendment ruling, as pointed out above, has been in place only 13 years.

@Graylight To play devil's advocate for another moment, the Second Amendment is one single sentence, and the subject of that sentence is "A well regulated militia." What the Heller decision did was sever the final connections between gun rights and militias; in essence to eliminate the subject of the sentence.

For all the decades prior to Heller, certain kinds of guns were banned based on the reasoning that they had no place in a militia. All that reasoning was overruled in 2008 with the Heller decision. Supreme Court precedents matter - until Court conservatives want to toss them.

@ElwoodBlues The current Court used foreign law in the questioning of lawyers in the recent Mississippi abortion case, although they have rejected foreign law previously. This Court seems bent on twisting existing law to finally outlaw abortion, no matter how much damage is done to the Court or our legal system.

@windinhishair I see Roe as de facto dead (since Casey this was predicable) and guns rights and laws getting more extreme with the Court about to go off the deep end…

@Graylight These final decisions will lay bare just how radically right the Court is (as if we didn’t know already)