9th Circus Court of Appeals hearing Miller v Bonta Dec 8th

[Racer X]

Oral arguments. Should be entertaining. I'll post audio if I can get it. And the 9th is also trying to determine if jumping the line and having the same bent 11 judge panel rehear Duncan v Bonta on remand is even legal, based on the internal upheaval from fellow judges.

Maryland in the 4th Circuit has been stalling a ruling on their assault weapon ban lawsuit for just under 11 months. Oral arguments were heard 12/6/2022.

Illinois is doing lord knows what. Time for Justice Barrett to reach out again and ask why the continuing delay.

[Speedy]

It used to be that sanity was when rulings reached the SCOTUS. Now the circuits are left trying to maintain what sanity they can.

[pdq]

Since the SCOTUS these days is behaving more like an erratic monarch giving decrees than a reasoned group of jurists leaning heavily on long precedence, those downstream don’t know what they’re supposed to do.

SCOTUS’s game of Calvinball has left them in the dark.

[pdq]

I’m not the only one who feels this way- to be honest, I can’t see this whole piece in that liberal rag, the Wall Street Journal, but I think I see where it’s headed:

As the court’s conservative majority has made clear, its current interpretation of the amendment depends decisively on its view of the nation’s long history of firearms ownership and regulation. If the most urgent question for ordinary citizens is how these rulings affect their ability to live securely in their homes, schools and public spaces, the narrower question for historians is how well the historical evidence cited by the court holds up. Where those concerns intersect is in the tragic fact that, on this issue of such importance to public safety, the justices are very poor and tendentious historians.

They don’t need no steenking history (except for what they declare it to be for their purposes).

No wonder those below in the legal hierarchy trying to follow their reasoning feel like they are in a “circus”.

[gabester]

Smote wrote:
Time for illegitimate late term rushed through, appointed by a twice impeached 91 time indicted unpopular President who shared state secrets with America's enemies Justice Barrett to reach out again and ask why the continuing delay.

FTFY.

[DeusxMac]

Smote wrote:
Oral arguments. Should be entertaining. I'll post audio if I can get it.

Demonstrating again, the quintessential example of the SINGLE-ISSUE Voter.

"The National Rifle Association in the United States, which has only one specific interest, is an example of a single-issue group"

[btfc]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=Smote]
Oral arguments. Should be entertaining. I'll post audio if I can get it.

Demonstrating again, the quintessential example of the SINGLE-ISSUE Voter.

"The National Rifle Association in the United States, which has only one specific interest, is an example of a single-issue group"

And you’re an atrocious lawyer…

[RgrF]

A night school dropout?

Imagine the difficulty anyone would have staying awake during a "contract law" course in night school.