Justice Thomas Gets It

[Subdeacon Joe]

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428173/justice-thomas-second-amendment-not-second-class-right-josh-blackman

 

 

 

Justice Thomas was flummoxed by how the Ninth Circuit ignored the Supreme Court’s rulings. “Despite the clarity with which we described the Second Amendment’s core protection for the right of self-defense,” he wrote in the dissent, “lower courts, including the ones here, have failed to protect it.” He continued, saying that “Second Amendment rights are no less protected by our Constitution than other rights enumerated in that document” and that he found the Court’s unwillingness to defend the Second Amendment “difficult to account” for in light of the fact that it often reviews other violations of cases concerning the First, Fourth, and Eighth amendments. “I see no reason,” Thomas concluded, “that challenges based on Second Amendment rights should be treated differently.” His admonitions went unheeded.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428173/justice-thomas-second-amendment-not-second-class-right-josh-blackman

 

[Eyesa Horg]

Thank you to Justices Thomas & Scalia