Why one survivor of domestic violence wants the Supreme Court to uphold a gun control law
1 year, 2 months ago

Why one survivor of domestic violence wants the Supreme Court to uphold a gun control law

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “He would not have been able to access that gun if we had these current laws in place,” Glenn said in an interview with The Associated Press that took place outside the Supreme Court. The closely watched case is the first one involving guns to reach the justices since their landmark Bruen decision last year expanded gun rights and changed the way courts evaluate whether restrictions on firearms violate the constitutional right to “keep and bear arms.” Glenn, the president of Survivor Justice Action, is allied with gun control groups that are backing the Biden administration's defense of the law. Rahimi’s case, and the subject of domestic violence may offer the government the optimal situation for defending gun restrictions, said Hashim Mooppan, a former Justice Department official in the Trump administration. “We're saying that the one thing that can protect them is a protection order that says somebody must have their gun removed,” Glenn said on the sidewalk outside the court.

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Will latest Supreme Court decision affect California bans on assault weapons, magazines?
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Will latest Supreme Court decision affect California bans on assault weapons, magazines?

LA Times  

Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento in 2012. A long-awaited U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a federal law barring domestic abusers from possessing firearms will have a narrower impact than some had hoped, but it will nonetheless play an important role in reshaping gun laws in California and across …

In the Supreme Court’s Rahimi decision, the conservative majority tries to gloss over its bonkers second amendment record.
6 months, 3 weeks ago

In the Supreme Court’s Rahimi decision, the conservative majority tries to gloss over its bonkers second amendment record.

Slate  

Another major case for the “not a loss/not exactly a win” pile this term at SCOTUS. A majority of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority said what we knew all along - adjudicated domestic abusers shouldn’t hold onto second amendment rights and the guns that they are statistically, horrifyingly, apt to use to harm their intimate partners. In an 8-1 decision …

Experts reveal surprising beneficiary of Supreme Court's gun violence decision
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Experts reveal surprising beneficiary of Supreme Court's gun violence decision

Raw Story  

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that protective orders can keep guns out of the hands of people accused of domestic violence, and at least one expert feels that could help a major figure in a separate case — Hunter Biden. “Since the Founding, the Nation’s firearm laws have included regulations to stop individuals who threaten physical harm to others …

U.S. Supreme Court allows gun restrictions for domestic violence suspects
6 months, 3 weeks ago

U.S. Supreme Court allows gun restrictions for domestic violence suspects

Raw Story  

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Supreme Court Upholds Law That Keeps Guns Away From Domestic Abusers
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Upholds Law That Keeps Guns Away From Domestic Abusers

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The federal government can continue to limit domestic abusers’ gun rights, according to a landmark ruling issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that helps clarify the conservative-majority court’s thinking on firearm restrictions. The case of United States v. Rahimi emerged as a high-profile test of how far the Supreme Court was willing to go in …

Guns, SCOTUS, and Rahimi: Originalism is one reason America has such a huge problem with guns.
8 months, 1 week ago

Guns, SCOTUS, and Rahimi: Originalism is one reason America has such a huge problem with guns.

Slate  

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. To take a step back, the Second Amendment itself reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” As historian and author …

Sam Alito’s Deplorable Arguments for Letting Domestic Abusers Keep Their Guns
1 year, 2 months ago

Sam Alito’s Deplorable Arguments for Letting Domestic Abusers Keep Their Guns

Slate  

This is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. The most fascinating class of Supreme Court oral arguments generally tend to be those that effectively raise the question “Erm, why are we here again?” And by virtually all accounts, arguments on Tuesday in what should have been the blockbuster gun rights case …

The Supreme Court’s Big Gun Case Was Humiliating for the Justices
55 years ago

The Supreme Court’s Big Gun Case Was Humiliating for the Justices

Slate  

This is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. In an opinion penned by Thomas, the court held, in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, that restrictions on the right to bear arms are presumptively unconstitutional unless they are, in a judge’s learned opinion, consistent with the nation’s “historical …

Zackey Rahimi Is the Perfect Poster Boy for the Gun Lobby at the Supreme Court
1 year, 2 months ago

Zackey Rahimi Is the Perfect Poster Boy for the Gun Lobby at the Supreme Court

Slate  

This is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. But if the court follows the lead of a federal appeals court that heard the case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, gun regulations that remove access to weapons as a result of such an adjudication would not be justified …

The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve a gun law that protects domestic violence victims
1 year, 2 months ago

The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve a gun law that protects domestic violence victims

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to preserve a federal law that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. The federal appeals court in New Orleans struck down the domestic violence law, following the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision in June 2022. Justice Elena Kagan noted that “there seems to be a fair bit of division …

High court seems likely to uphold law banning guns for accused domestic abusers
1 year, 2 months ago

High court seems likely to uphold law banning guns for accused domestic abusers

NPR  

High court seems likely to uphold law banning guns for accused domestic abusers Enlarge this image toggle caption Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to uphold a federal law that bans gun possession for anyone subject to a domestic violence court order. Sponsor Message Dangerous vs. responsible Solicitor …

Editorial: We know what will happen if the Supreme Court lets accused domestic abusers keep their guns
1 year, 2 months ago

Editorial: We know what will happen if the Supreme Court lets accused domestic abusers keep their guns

LA Times  

Visitors pay their respects at a memorial to the mass shooting victims of retired Ventura Police Sgt. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the consequences of its extraordinarily reckless opinion in the notorious Bruen gun case when it hears arguments Tuesday on whether the 2nd Amendment forbids laws that require domestic abusers to temporarily relinquish their deadly weapons. It is …

Opinion: Supreme Court has a huge decision to make
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: Supreme Court has a huge decision to make

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jill Filipovic is a journalist and author of the book “OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind.” Follow her on Twitter. CNN — On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments on a pivotal gun case over a federal law that bars people subject to certain domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. Justice Clarence …

Why one survivor of domestic violence wants the Supreme Court to uphold a gun control law
1 year, 2 months ago

Why one survivor of domestic violence wants the Supreme Court to uphold a gun control law

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Ruth Glenn knows from harrowing personal experience the danger of putting a gun in the hands of a violent spouse or partner, the issue at the heart of a case before the Supreme Court. “He would not have been able to access that gun if we had these current laws in place,” Glenn said in an interview with …

The NRA Argues Domestic Abusers Should Keep Their Guns
1 year, 3 months ago

The NRA Argues Domestic Abusers Should Keep Their Guns

Huff Post  

The Supreme Court should guarantee gun rights for an accused domestic abuser, several Second Amendment defenders finally wrote in court filings last week. But the amicus filings offer a window into gun groups’ thinking on the questions posed by USA v. Zackey Rahimi, which promises to define how the Court will interpret the right to bear arms in the coming …

Key gun control measure in the crosshairs at US Supreme Court
1 year, 6 months ago

Key gun control measure in the crosshairs at US Supreme Court

Firstpost  

Rahimi challenged his conviction on the grounds that the law violated the Constitution’s Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms,” and won. Biden’s administration has appealed The U.S. Supreme Court, which last year expanded gun rights in a landmark ruling, is set to return to the issue in a major case testing whether a law that keeps firearms away …

Rahimi SCOTUS Case: The court is considering whether domestic abusers can have guns.
1 year, 6 months ago

Rahimi SCOTUS Case: The court is considering whether domestic abusers can have guns.

Slate  

This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. Because while assuredly not every domestic abuser is a terrorist or mass shooter, the vast majority of terrorists and mass shooters have a history of committing domestic violence, from Osama bin Laden and Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen to white supremacists Anders Breivik …

Editorial: Court’s domestic violence gun ruling shoots first, asks questions ... never
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: Court’s domestic violence gun ruling shoots first, asks questions ... never

LA Times  

If a foreign enemy wanted to destroy the United States without anyone noticing, it might try to find a way to weaponize the rights we cherish and use them against us. The court issued a shocking ruling last week that puts guns back in the hands of domestic abusers and could ultimately be used to undermine a host of “red …

People under domestic violence orders can own guns, US appeals court rules
1 year, 11 months ago

People under domestic violence orders can own guns, US appeals court rules

India Today  

A US appeals court on Thursday declared unconstitutional a federal law making it a crime for people under domestic violence restraining orders to own firearms. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest victory for gun rights advocates since a Supreme Court decision last June granting a broad right for people …

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