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Kavanaugh, Trump's Supreme Court Pick, Could Trigger Shift on Guns
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With the addition of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court could have a conservative majority to strike down bans on semiautomatic weapons in liberal states and to decree that law-abiding Americans have a right to carry a gun in public.
Although the fight over Kavanaugh's nomination has mostly focused on abortion and health care, President Donald Trump's second nominee to the court could have a rapid impact on the national debate over gun control _ a topic the high court repeatedly has avoided wading into in recent years. |
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Kavanaugh is correct, and the rest of the "conservative" jurists are not.
"[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table." - Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in D.C. v. Heller (2008)
That's a clear and succinct statement of the controlling interest on this issue. |
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| Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands? — Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836 |
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