By not taking the appeals, the nation’s highest court let stand a series of lower court rulings that prohibited people convicted of driving under the influence, making false statements on tax returns and selling counterfeit cassette tapes from owning a gun.
Selling counterfeit cassette tapes. Are you kidding?
They know what they have to rule, so they refuse to hear. What a country.
I do not care… if you served your time, why should it matter?
If you don’t want violent offenders to get their rights back, don’t release them. (Which could be an interesting side effect of restoring rights to felons)
DV convictions usually have conditions which adhere regardless of imprisonment. As most laws are written, losing the weapon is part of the ongoing ‘restitution’.
There doesn’t need to be a blanket ban via the legislature, a judge can determine by the individual case if a lifetime restriction should be a written part of the sentencing or not.
It’s still working the refs, complaining about the corporate press, and you only try it if you already won before you try. And that means making the hard choice to abandon the law’n’order thing forever. Can’t position as for the people if the other half of your daily mantra is ‘guys with guns get to rule everyone but me and mine’.
The model y’all should be following is the weed lobby. High Times paved the path.
To me this highlights why Dems need to back away from the court-packing abyss. Their wild fears about what the conservative court is going to do are mostly fever dreams.