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Actually itâs not irrelevant to Scaliaâs opinion. It supports it.
Had the âshort barreled shotgunâ in question been a arm used by the militia, then by the Miller ruling it would have been protected by the 2nd and legal for Miller to own privately.
Your argument started out that prior to Scalia the SC had never ruled on private firearms ownership.
As shown in the Miller rulingâŚthey did, and it doesnât support the idea that military style arms can be restricted. It shows the opposite.
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You are arguing a different point than I am. McReynoldsâ ruling was based on the militia use of weapons⌠an entirely different basis for ruling than Scaliaâs. And Scalia, as I quoted above, cleared opened the door for restricting military weapons⌠one more instance of judicial activism.
As I noted above, the intent of this decision have been debated for seventy years. Its a good example of the point I made much earlier in this thread, that Constitutional matters cannot be treated as absolute.
WuWei
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You should read the report.
Smyrna
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The swamp is exposing themselvesâŚgreat. That makes it easier.
DougBH
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I sort of figured most people knew how to look up the IG report. Check out recommendations and Appendix 2
Guvnah
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And CNN. And NBC. And ⌠and ⌠andâŚ
Yup.
zantax
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Still no answer, do these 1,100 make up 10% of former DOJ officials? 1%? 50% Without the answer to that question this whole thing is meaningless.
You mean over two thousand Hillary voters want Barr to resign? Yes?
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zantax
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The actual number is 1,100.
From More Than 1,100 Former DOJ Officials Call for Barr to Resign | Time
Over 1,100 Former Justice Department Officials Call for Attorney General Barrâs Resignation
Apparently the OP is a big fan of rounding up to the nearest thousand.
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You should wait for all those investigations to end before you ask that.
zantax
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I was saying the source I saw said 1,100, which I proved with a link. If you have a complaint take it up with Time Magazine. Fine make it 2k, still no word on what percentage of the cohort âex-DOJ officialsâ that number represents and therefore meaningless.
I was saying that I forgot to include never Trumpers. Have any of these scholars recommend any prosecution for liberals who lied to a fisa court and promoted a fake Russia collusion hoax for several years? Anybody? Anyone of them insisting that we prosecute corrupt republicans AND democrats?
You used an outdated link as a means to chide the OP for ârounding up to the nearest thousandâ and I showed you were wrong and the OP was right. This is not Timeâs fault. 
zantax
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Generally speaking, the number of people who signed a letter doesnât change once itâs been delivered. So I didnât think having the very latest was important. And the OP didnât feel the need to provide his/her own link.
DougBH
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âThe letter, organized by former Justice Department employees and the advocacy group Protect Democracy, which was formed in 2017 and has been critical of the Trump administration, describes Barrâs intervention in the case as outrageous and says it raises questions about the departmentâs independence and the fair administration of justice.â
So basically this is an anti Trump organization that has been so since 2017. Lets not pretend that these were all happy campers until the mere recommendation that an old man not be given a virtual life sentence for lying and making wild statements set them off. Like the Dems in the House, they were looking for their anti administration outrage and chose this.
And:
âA spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment. An administration official, Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, said on Sunday on CNN: âBarr is being independent. He did come into this decision on his own. It was not something he was influenced by, by the president.ââ
So they may just have a mistake of fact. But instead of asking for an investigation, they want an immediate resignation based on outrage and what they imagined in their own heads.
My own opinion; This has less to do with a few years recommendations for an old man, and more to do with smearing Barr before the Durham report comes outâŚbut admittedly I have no more proof of that than those ex employees have for their accusations.
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Been saying this for three years and Lucy pulls the football away from you every time and it never stops your enthusiasm.
zantax
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There are currently roughly 115,000 DOJ employees, how many former ones does that mean there are? Donât know the exact number but I know itâs enough to make 2,000 meaningless.
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