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mopinko

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1. the legal profession has much to answer for.
Mon Feb 26, 2024, 11:14 AM
Feb 2024

i’ve said many times that, imho, law schools dont teach respect for the law, they teach work arounds.
it’s never been more true.
thx for the gift link. worth reading.

In short, Bruen only makes sense when considered as a partisan political ruling: The modern right has long supported the elimination of gun restrictions, and the court agreed to decide the case only after it secured its current right-wing supermajority.

Professor Friedman, of N.Y.U., said, “When you combine overruling with no appreciable change or explanation other than that the membership of the court has changed, what you have is naked power.”

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