The Second Amendment has been having some success in front of the current Supreme Court.
But this is one case making its way through the judicial process that none of the Justices want to touch.
Supreme Court Justices are already squirming in their seats at the next big Second Amendment case that could head their way.
Do conservative Supreme Court Justices exist?
We all know that the two main qualities politicians in Washington, D.C. seem to share together right now is an exceptional ability to lie and the ability to look like they are working while they do absolutely nothing at the same time. The same can surely be said for some of the Republican-appointed Justices on the Supreme Court.
It may be hard to believe but the Supreme Court technically has a 6-3 (two thirds) Republican majority on the Court. Even with this supermajority, conservatism and our Constitutional rights continually go to the Supreme Court to die. For instance, in Murthy v. Missouri et al., the Supreme Court ruled this term that social media users do not have standing to sue the government when they collude with social media platforms to restrict their speech.
But the Supreme Court hasn’t just missed its mark on the First Amendment as the Court has also issued some awful rulings that severely restrict your Second Amendment rights. In United States v. Rahimi, the Court ruled that local judges and magistrates can, without due process, continue to strip Americans of their right to possess a firearm if they determine on their own accord that you are a threat. What could go wrong with giving local court systems the authority to strip you of your Second Amendment rights because they see you as a “threat”?
So as some of those on the supposedly right-leaning Supreme Court majority are willing to hand out victories on common sense cases, whenever there is room for them to step out on the hard cases to defend our Constitutional rights, they continually cave and rule in the wrong direction. And those Justices hate to see cases come up through the system that exposes them as cowards. Well, luckily for them, they may have another “hard” Second Amendment case that will challenge their limits.
The next attack on our Second Amendment rights
California does what it does best and this month politicians in the state again trampled on citizens’ Second Amendment rights by implementing an 11 percent excise tax on firearm sales. Once such a tax is established in California you can expect other liberal states across the nation to implement the gun excise tax in a heartbeat. But thankfully the tax is being legally challenged.
A handful of Second Amendment rights groups filed suit in San Diego Superior Court in an attempt to stop California from putting the punitive tax on firearms and ammo. The lawsuit states:
California effectively seeks the power to destroy the exercise of a constitutional right by singling it out for special taxation. If this tax is permitted, there is nothing stopping California from imposing a 50% or even 100% tax on a constitutional right it disfavors whether it be the right to keep and bear arms, the right to free exercise of religion, or any other right.
Randy Kozuch, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, told the press that this lawsuit is to fight the excise tax which is a “blatant and egregious attack on the rights of Californians and a calculated maneuver to dismantle the Second Amendment.”
Odds are this case will make its way up the judicial appeals ladder over the next couple of years. And sooner or later the Supreme Court will have to determine if they want to hear the case. With some of the current Justices’ records on the hard cases, don’t get your hopes up that they will actually rule in favor of the Second Amendment in this case.
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