Judge rules in favor of Missoula ordinance requiring background checks on all gun sales

[Charlie T Waite]

[Blackwater 53393]

Typical judicial "legislation"!!  A total overreach by an obviously liberal "activist" judge!!

[Charlie T Waite]

2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Typical judicial "legislation"!!  A total overreach by an obviously liberal "activist" judge!!

Per Christopher Scalia, son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,

 

“If federal judges returned to the more modest approach our Founding Fathers envisioned for them, they would be less likely to rule according to their preferred policy preferences and more likely to leave political decisions to our elected representatives.”  Justice Antonin Scalia himself, long ago warned Americans about the excessive intrusion of politics into the judicial appointment process.  “He knew that persuading people to this way of thinking would help return the judicial branch to its proper status as what Hamilton famously called ‘the least dangerous branch.”

 

Judges need to return to the more limited role they had held for most of our nation’s history: applying laws and statutes according to their text and interpreting the Constitution according to its original public meaning, using history, tradition and precedent as guides.  I take this to heart before each court session.

[Sedalia Dave]

Wonder how on earth they expect to enforce that totally useless do nothing law?

[Sedalia Dave]

I also wonder why no one challenges these laws because all the additional fees for background checks, training classes and permits effectively deny poor people the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. 

 

In some states the fees likely add up to more than the cost of the firearm.