Anti-Gun Media Panicking
Over SCOTUS Decisions
By Tom Knighton. Oct 4, 2021
Anti-Second Amendment activists were pretty happy last November. They gained the House, an effective majority in the Senate, and the new president ran on gun control. It looked as if everything was looking up for them.
Then they ran smack into the face of reality.
Despite having an effective majority in the Senate with the new vice president serving as a tie-breaker, they still couldn't get past the filibuster. Sure, they want that gone, but they can't seem to make that happen either.
Now, despite all their supposed advantage, they're freaked out because it seems the Supreme Court is taking Second Amendment cases again.
It's almost opening day for the most important court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court. While there might not be a marching band present to usher in the first day of the new term on Monday, there will surely be some fireworks this Supreme Court season.
This year we barely had time to miss the Supreme Court. Typically, justices sign our yearbooks in June with a perfunctory "HAGS!" (Have a Great Summer!) and disappear for months as they give well-paid speeches in far-off places. This year, they stuck around, busying themselves with many so-called shadow docket decisions. They allowed Texas' restrictive abortion law to go into effect and gave a big thumbs down to President Joe Biden's attempt to extend the federal eviction moratorium and to his effort to end former President Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy.
Now they return to their regularly scheduled programming. They've already set oral arguments in a number of key cases that could reshape our legal and political landscape and exacerbate society's existing fault lines.
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