@MorosKostas @fourboxesdiner This should be the rule in every federal court considering that I suspect 3CA AWB decision being held up by a dissenter. The losing side should not get to indefinitely hold up a decision.
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@fourboxesdiner Easy enough to implement time limit rules on dissents to avoid this.
E.g. - Justices have 30 or 60 days to draft a dissent. The opinion releases on that deadline, ready or not. If they are not ready, the majority can note that a dissent will be published at a later date.
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This would basically destroy the legitimacy of the Court and states would (rightfully) begin ignoring its ruling, but they don't care.
There is a serious case to be made for expanding to 13 justices; the Court grants cert to too few cases, and adding four more would help with that. Hell, we could add 6 more and use it as an opportunity to finally break up the Ninth Circuit.
But it would need to be done in a fair way that isn't just an attempt to steal the majority, which conservatives won fair and square by winning many elections across decades.
Basically, I'd envision a deal in which each party agreed to name two new justices (or three, if we were adding six total). And as part of the deal, a constitutional amendment permanently setting the number at 13 (or 15) to rid ourselves of the threat of court-packing.
Rep. Ro Khanna@RepRoKhanna
The Supreme Court has engaged in an ugly recidivism that has marked the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Reconstruction. 18 year terms limits on Justices now. Expand the court from 9 to 13 Justices now.
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@MarkHalperin No need for a Nobel Peace Prize for me. Just happy to help.
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@MarkHalperin My idea for world peace: convince China and the US the keep up alternating summits that are increasingly extravagant. No one attacks Taiwan because both nations are so invested in the spectacle they can’t risk a war derailing the planning.
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Some things occurring that day include:
World Maritime Day
National Punctuation Day
Remember Me Thursday (pet adoption awareness day)
National Women’s Health and Fitness Day
Sara Cook@saraecook
NEWS: During the State Banquet, President Trump says he has invited President Xi and his wife for a reciprocal visit at the White House on September 24
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What going to get groceries will be like because the ATF simplified the 4473.
Rob Romano@2Aupdates
Everytown complains that the proposed 4473 "dispenses with several questions used to stop illegal straw purchases," despite their link showing the form asks MORE straw purchase-related questions than the current one:
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Second Mother's Day without Miss E. Youngest daughter is having a rough go of it. I'm taking her out for some ice cream after my conversation with @aarmark wraps up at 8:30. We'll get her mom's favorite and share some of our favorite memories of her.
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@MorosKostas When do they start threatening to pack the VA Supreme Court
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Spanberger alienated a bunch of people who voted for her, for no reason!
She thought winning one election meant she could turn Virginia into California. Maybe she still will, but happy to see her eat shit on at least this.
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@MorosKostas USPS simultaneously too dangerous to allow guns to be shipped but perfectly safe for ballots to be shipped.
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@MorosKostas @2Aupdates Nintendo is wild; they will just let a nostalgic and beloved franchise whither on the vine for decades and then spring a revival out of nowhere.
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@2Aupdates I figured given (SPOILERS) Fox McCloud was in the new movie
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@MorosKostas I’m actually surprised to see Harmeet say this when we are seeing such reluctance from scotus to take a hardware case. I think we all agree they would rule favorably but they have to take a case. Encouraging to see.
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Credit where it is due, Trump bragging about AWBs potentially being struck down nationwide is a pretty strong message given he's been the intended victim of several assassination attempts. Would have been very easy for him to shift towards a more restrictive stance.
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@MorosKostas Yeah X is full of “but what are you doing in Washington/New York!!??” etc.
people do need to understand the entire ball game depends on scotus taking a hardware case and this raises the profile of this issue for the court. All other state victories would follow.
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Keeping government's feet to the fire is important. But it's also important to provide some positive reinforcement when they do the right thing, and not blackpill by overly-focusing on stuff we disagree on (like their defense of the NFA and some other issues).
Basically, if we are impossible to please, they'll eventually stop trying to please us.
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This is, unless I am forgetting one, the 4th civil rights lawsuit by the DOJ to defend Second Amendment rights in the places they are under siege:
1. Sued Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department over its years-long wait times for carry permits.
2. Sued US Virgin Islands over unconstitutional gun permit denials.
3. Sued DC over its AWB.
4. Now this Denver lawsuit.
That's on top of the many amicus briefs, the ATF rule changes just announced, the upcoming rights restoration process, and so on.
We are a cynical bunch in the 2A space, and perhaps that comes with the territory I guess of being activists for a right which is centered on the ultimate skepticism of government power.
But it's critical to acknowledge that, in terms of federal support of the Second Amendment, we've never had it so good in modern history. The only comparison I can think of, as I often note, is the Reconstruction-era Freedmen's Bureau, which also tried hard to defend gun rights for people whose government was trying to disarm them.
AAGHarmeetDhillon@AAGDhillon
I’ve directed the @CivilRights Division, through our new Second Amendment Section, to defend law-abiding Americans from unconstitutional restrictions. No one should face criminal penalties simply for exercising a right shared by tens of millions—regardless of where they live. justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
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@hannahhill_sc @fourboxesdiner @AAGDhillon @Arrinba3870 Great to see. In the short term any thoughts if this swings a cert grant in Duncan and/or Viramontes?
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Did anyone ever think they would see this from the DOJ? So grateful for everything @AAGDhillon and @Arrinba3870 are doing!!
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Promises made, promises kept. The DOJ just sued the City of Denver over their AR-15 ban.
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@MorosKostas To be fair under this logic SCOTUSblog probably would have also thought Snope had a high likelihood of a grant
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I don't know if Scotusblog will be right that this signals one is likely to be granted. I hope they are right.
I do know if this ends with another mass Snoping, then it was really a sick joke of SCOTUS to drag it out this long with this many petitions.
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I hesitate to get anyone's hopes up after last year's Snoping.
But for those interested, a couple weeks back Scotusblog did an article on various "clusters" of cases in a term they say has "unusually high relist numbers."
They also write that "the amount of Second Amendment cases is larger and more coordinated than anything seen since the post-Bruen term (in which the court found that one had a right to carry a concealed firearm) began working through its downstream cases. Five petitions from different circuits, involving both magazine capacity restrictions and assault-style rifle bans, are pending simultaneously."
Here is the subsequent section on the 2A cases:
Chuck Michel@CRPAPresident
An interesting discuss of pending SCOTUS cases, including Duncan. scotusblog.com/2026/04/what-c…
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@Trijicon Maybe bad timing but I’m kinda getting into this gold deal now. You guys gonna do that one?
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You made it clear. We made it happen. The SRO Green has landed, built from real feedback and designed to perform when it counts.
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@fourboxesdiner @MorosKostas @HarvardJLPP @hannahhill_sc If scotus doesn’t choose to take a hardware case and instead persists in ignoring the lower court insurrection on this issue, they defacto give up authority on arms bans. Denver isn’t wrong in their cite here, they are daring scotus to do something about it.
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@MorosKostas If you want to know why Denver is wrong in defending their "assault weapon"; AR-15 ban, my @HarvardJLPP article here explains. That Denver cites to "inferior" blue-state courts over Heller proves they know they are dead on the issue journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/what-part… @hannahhill_sc
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These idiots always cite falling crime as support for their gun laws, when the drop in crime is nationwide, seen in both pro-gun and anti-gun states. DC has not enforced its mag ban in a while, and its homicide rate is way down.
In fact, Denver is one of the very few big cities in the country recently to see its homicide *increase*. So they really have no leg to stand on for that point anyway.
Citing all the antigun circuits upholding AWBs is meaningless, they all upheld carry bans too.
Hannah Hill@hannahhill_sc
@AAGDhillon Here's Denver's response, which is HILARIOUS. It seems the Denver Communists only just discovered the concept of "federal overreach" and there is much pearl-clutching.
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@gringosuavex SCOTUSblog doesn’t understand the justices extreme reluctance to take a hardware case. Wish I shared their optimism of a Duncan cert grant but Snope still stings.
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I would be wary of this analysis by SCOTUSblog. If the justices wanted to hear a case from this cluster they have had ample opportunity to do so. They have not done it because they likely prefer a case where the US DOJ briefs that cert is warranted.
Chuck Michel@CRPAPresident
An interesting discuss of pending SCOTUS cases, including Duncan. scotusblog.com/2026/04/what-c…
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It's been shown scientifically that men who own guns are more satisfied with their penis size than men who do not own guns.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38819006/
Skew Spew Barmy Hairdo Curmudgeon Bigot and Smug@SkewSmug
Alexa, show me a fella compensating for their tiny penis.
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@bonchieredstate Property taxes are the least fair of taxation schemes. Can’t afford a consumption tax? you consume less. An income tax is necessarily tied to..your income. But property tax can eventually squeeze you out of your own home and your only solution is to sell and move.
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Property taxes are the most invasive and oppressive of resident tax schemes, leaving them with the least control and most liability.
I don’t care what Europe does. That doesn’t make property taxes preferable.
Avery James@averyfjames
I don't think we should become more like Europe's political economy.
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@MorosKostas @hannahhill_sc @ParkDerekS Status quo we lose. Blue states will all pass these bans and eventually Dems get a trifecta and we get one nationally. If we go another term without an AWB cert grant I don’t think we have much more to lose at that point and may as well yolo an MG case
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To reverse an MG decision on 2A, they'd have to finally clarify their hardware standard, and that could in effect strike down AWBs even as it upheld the machine gun ban.
Sure, maybe there's risk in that, because maybe that standard would doom us on AWBs. But if they wrote it that way, it would mean they were never on our side anyway.
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So you have to see this in context. The 5th Circuit is the only circuit to actually properly apply Bruen to federal gun control, and the Supreme Court's only (to date) post-Bruen case was to smack that down. And it's not just guns - SCOTUS has slapped them down on a variety of issue.
The 5th knows as well as we do that this Supreme Court will not end the machine gun ban, regardless of whether or not they should under a proper history-and-tradition analysis. The Roberts Court does not have the political will to legalize machine guns.
In my opinion, trying to press that issue is dangerous. When you force the question with a Supreme Court politically motivated to poke holes in its own Bruen framework to preserve sacred cows, you get rulings like Rahimi and cause significant harm to more mainstream gun rights fights.
I know no one on here wants to hear this. But y'all have GOT to stop looking to the courts to make up for legislative actions. Sometimes you can, but very often you can't, and you risk making things worse if you press bad fights in the courts.
Eric W.@EWess92
Does the federal machine gun ban violate the Second Amendment? 10-7, the Fifth Circuit declines to take the question. But two no votes agree that it probably isn't and want to wait for a future case. That would reverse the outcome. Judge Willett and Chief Judge Elrod are the two
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