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Amy Coney Barrett
Mr. Perfect
Member, Moderator Posts: 66,294 ******
The most googled name on the interwebs about now.
Some will die in hot pursuit
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
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Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Don't doubt me.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/hints-of-judge-amy-coney-barretts-stance-on-gun-rights-look-promising/
Bob
As BobJudy noted, she looks very promising.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159512/amy-coney-barrett-wants-felons-guns-not-votes
From the link:
The lone dissenting judge was Barrett. In a 38-page dissent, she argued that history and practice from the founding era showed that the Framers did not intend to deny gun ownership to all felons, just those who could be dangerous. “Neither Wisconsin nor the United States has introduced data sufficient to show that disarming all nonviolent felons substantially advances its interest in keeping the public safe,” she wrote. “Nor have they otherwise demonstrated that Kanter himself shows a proclivity for violence. Absent evidence that he either belongs to a dangerous category or bears individual markers of risk, permanently disqualifying Kanter from possessing a gun violates the Second Amendment.”
Federal appeals courts are bound to follow the Supreme Court’s precedents in any given case. But when it comes to the Second Amendment, those precedents are far from settled. In the 2008 case D.C. v. Heller, the court ruled for the first time that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to bear arms unrelated to any militia function. Two years later, in McDonald v. Chicago, the court held that the Second Amendment’s protections also apply to state laws. The two decisions marked a sea change in how the courts interpreted the right to bear arms and cast doubt on a wide swath of gun-related restrictions nationwide.
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By incorporation through Due Process, Heller and McDonald have transformed the 2nd Amendment (substantially) into a collective right. In the highlighted section above, Barrett has succinctly expressed the individual liberty ensconced in the 2nd Amendment, and puts her on a much higher plain than her mentor, Scalia.
Brad Steele
Pro-Life, Pro-2nd Amendment?
Pro Amy Coney Barrett.