Justices Thomas, Gorsuch blast court decision to reject gun rights appeal

Libs are all for that one too.

 

As a precursor, they are.

 

It's too bad that the dummy who wrote the Second Amendment wrote it like he was an idiot with an IQ of 5.

 

Dat moment when lefties realize they are the hive mind.

 

Gorsuch isn't just great on the Second Amendment, but on Religious Freedom, too.

Washington Times:

"The guy's not afraid to write," said Josh Blackman, an associate professor at South Texas College of Law. "He's not afraid to assert himself."

Confirmed to the court in April, Justice Gorsuch participated in only a small fraction of the cases this year. But in a year that lacked big-name rulings, his ascendance was the biggest story of the court's term. He is already cutting an outsized figure by asking his fair share of questions and taking stances that suggest he will carve out his own jurisprudence on the high court.

In one brief dissent Monday, he chided his colleagues for moving quickly to overturn an Arkansas law refusing to list the name of a same-sex partner when a child is conceived through artificial insemination. He said the court should have at least heard the state's justifications.

In another dissent, Justice Gorsuch complained of the court's timidity in defending religious freedoms. The court ruled that a Missouri church couldn't be barred from receiving government money under a program designed to improve playgrounds.

Justice Gorsuch, though, said the court was creating bizarre distinctions suggesting there is a difference between "religious status and religious use" when it comes to church and state interactions.

"Does a religious man say grace before dinner? Or does a man begin his meal in a religious manner?" he wondered. "The distinction blurs in much the same way the line between acts and omissions can blur when stared at too long, leaving us to ask (for example) whether the man who drowns by awaiting the incoming tide does so by act (coming upon the sea) or omission (allowing the sea to come upon him)."

He concluded that the First Amendment's protections of religious freedom shouldn't care about the distinction either way.

"After all, that Clause guarantees the free exercise of religion, not just the right to inward belief (or status)," he wrote, in an opinion joined by Justice Thomas.

The two justices also dissented from the court's refusal to take up a gun rights case. They said the court was copping out by refusing to give clear guidance on whether the Second Amendment protects Americans' right to carry a firearm outside the home.

They said the court was treating Second Amendment rights as lesser guarantees than other Bill of Rights protections.

For those on the right who were less than enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump for president but realized the vital importance of electing someone who would name conservatives to the court, the Gorsuch opinions are eliciting a sigh of relief. No matter how good a nominee looks on paper, the test of the conservative mettle of a justice occurs when his votes and opinions are closely examined. Chief Justice John Roberts has been a reliable conservative vote on some issues, but he will never be forgiven for the legal somersaults he turned in approving Obamacare. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who started out to be a conservative justice, grew into a swing vote on the court – especially on abortion and gay rights, where he reliably swings left.

The Gorsuch opinions place him more in the intellectual orbit of deceased Justice Scalia, who frequently pointed out the inconsistencies in the court's decisions.

Unlike Scalia, who had the misfortune of serving on a narrowly divided court and found himself frequently in the minority, President Trump will have the opportunity to replace one or perhaps two liberal justices with conservatives. That will give Gorsuch the opportunity to shine and could bring some much needed sanity and prudence to the court's decisions.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...ender_of_religious_freedom.html#ixzz4lF2CEH33

 

NJ is practically the same way. I mean, States rights right? IDK. I agree, we should universally be allowed the right to keep and bear arms. The states of CA and NJ are overreaching.

 

Nonsense. Sanity? Yes. It is sane to think there is a gilded afterlife just for you... created just for you - so you can spew your hatred and idiotic religious beliefs at people who disagree with you.

Gorsuch is an ideologue.

 

But you do

 

I did no such thing. You seem quite upset and are exhibiting "angry bird" behavior. Pictures of cute fuzzy animals can be soothing. Here, I'm a giver:

 

Yikes.....

This comment is exactly why 2nd amendment supporters do not believe or trust liberals who are so against them.

You guys constantly "re evaluate" laws and change your interpretation of them based on your feelings.

The Supreme Court disagrees with you, while CA continues to put up road blocks against firearms we will all continue to see more and more people "resist" by buying LOTS of firearms, ignore a lot of the CA state laws and protest as often as possible.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a conservative over reaction with some type of "pro gun law" in the near future.

 

Gun Control cost Democrats the South. It remains amazing that basic Constitutional rights could possibly be so easy to suppress. We need to make the "privileges or immunities" clause of the 14th amendment great again!

 

Keep buying as many as you can. When they are outlawed, each one will be a separate count against you when you don't turn them in

 

So you do want and think guns to be outlawed? So the conservatives are correct?

Good luck taking our firearms away, lawl

 

Are you a Communist, Marxist, or a Fascist?

 

You are hallucinating.

 

California has all but done it. Wait and see.

 

I am a real American. Too bad NRA nutters aren't.

 

So a real American is one who wants to remove civil rights from law abiding citizens?

Who knew?

 

People who want to strip the rights of millions of Americans are Communists.

 

I don't get it. All the other amendments in the Bill of Rights are almost universally accepted to prevent government from over stepping it's authority concerning the citizens. Why should the 2nd be any different?

 

Welcome to the face of the New America.

 

Which is just one reason I do not live in Kalifornia.