SCOTUSblog Symposium: Supreme Court should address lower court nullification of the Second Amendment

[Doug_Nightmare]

https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/11/...-court-nullification-of-the-second-amendment/

In the 2008 decision District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court affirmed that the Second Amendment is an individual right of all Americans, like everything else in the Bill of Rights. Yet many lower courts have refused to accept the Supreme Court’s holding. Among the worst offenders are the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd and 9th Circuits. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. New York City, the Supreme Court should address the problem of lower court nullification of the Second Amendment.
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The 2nd Circuit is not the only court to pretend that obvious restrictions on the Second Amendment have nothing to do with the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court in Heller specifically instructed lower courts not to use the “rational basis” test in Second Amendment cases. Under the rational basis test, the most lenient standard of review in constitutional challenges to government actions, laws are almost automatically upheld. In the 2017 case Texeira v. Alameda, the 9th Circuit used the rational basis test to validate a California county’s ban on all new gun stores.

 

[color of law]

Thanks for the post. If this article is anywhere close we will have a winner. But I am not going to hold my breath.

 

[Ghost1958]

Read today's dog and pony show.
Nothing of importance is going to result from this performance.

 

[color of law]

The paperwork is the case and the oral arguments is the show.


I have sat through enough oral arguments and then read the decisions to know what the difference is between night and day.