For us dweebs that spend our leisure time watching politics and the country around us we have been thrilled or outraged by a lot of SCOTUS and their rulings…….Citizens United comes to mind….their stand on same sex marriage or a whole array of issues…….there has been outrage from both sides of the spectrum……and the court never fails to amuse or surprise……
The latest news coming from the justices…….
In a blow to the NRA, the Supreme Court has opted not to hear a trio of cases challenging federal and state gun laws. Two involved NRA-backed challenges to laws limiting gun rights for people under 21, Reuters reports. One of those was a Texas law banning 18- to 20-year-olds from publicly carrying guns; the other addressed decades-old laws against gun sales to those under 21. A third case involved consumers’ ability to challenge gun-sale laws. The high court didn’t offer comment on its rejection of the cases, the AP notes. In other court news:
- Justices rejected an alleged drug lord’s appeal against a Virginia retrial for capital murder. Justin Wolfe’s initial conviction was overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct.
- Nor will justices hear an appeal by a man who was convicted under federal gambling laws. Lawrence DiCristina of New York says the laws cover only games of chance, whereas the game his underground group plays—poker—is about skill.
- So what is the court hearing? Arguments are taking place today over an Obama administration rule on pollution. The EPA requires companies developing pollution-boosting industrial sites to assess their carbon output. The Chamber of Commerce, which is challenging the measure along with some GOP-run states, says it “may be the costliest, most intrusive regulatory program the nation has yet seen.” Several other states, as well as environmental groups, are backing the White House.
I am sure that there will be a wealth of opinions flying around with these newest decisions on the part of SCOTUS…….anyone care to start that ground swell of opinions?
Good lord… Teenagers with carry permits?
Scary huh?
They can’t even control their dicks! (That’s not such a bad thing, we were all young once, but a gun!)
The only difference is one takes a life and other can give life…..
Imagine the day when Teenagers with carry permits and their automatic assault rifles or their nine-millimeter handguns suddenly get the idea they can “Stand Their Ground.” Remember . . . some of these as yet completely mature personalities have had a lot of their sensitivities formed by violent video games. It makes me shudder.
Agreed, and with some of the highest rates of suicides being with teens, it would be insane to make it any easier to allow them to access weapons that already account for more than half of gun related deaths in this country.
The reasoning power of the typical teenager is just plain scary…..
I don’t get the discussion here beyond some folks attempting to show each other how smart they are. Just in case you didn’t notice, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. I give credit to the NRA even though I don’t agree with them on everything; they are very much like liberals in that they’ll fight any and every piece of gun legislation no matter how much sense it might make solely because of the knowledge that if you give in to liberals one bit they’ll go for it all. Kind of like the abortion issue. Liberals blathered and blubbered about “rape, incest and the life of the mother” as justifications so pro-lifers gave in and now after 41 years and 56+ million “rapes, incests, and life of the mothers” well … we see what we got. Abortion on demand at any and every stage right up to and even after birth. This is why liberals can’t stand the NRA because they use the same tactics as liberals.
Of course they use the same tactics….that is why we call in lobbying…..everybody has a price….
“I don’t get the discussion here beyond some folks attempting to show each other how smart they are.”
And then there are the arrogant liberal-haters who always manage to offend the audience they have chosen to invade.
Seriously CH! You somehow see your comments constructively adding to the dialogue on this? If I approached you in the same holier-than-thou attitude how irritated would it make you?
You’re offended??? You’re kidding right? And you’re calling me a “liberal-hater” …
What in my comment indicates an “holier-than-thou” attitude?
You’re panties are in a wad because you have nothing else to say except accuse me of being exactly what you are.
“What in my comment indicates an “holier-than-thou” attitude?”
Uh, everything?
“You’re panties are in a wad because you have nothing else to say except accuse me of being exactly what you are. “
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I was going to suggest that.