Ethan Savka
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Ethan Savka
@eesavka
Pre-Law @Hillsdale | Textualist | ByzCath ☦️ Follow for #ConLaw commentary
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No big rulings from SCOTUS today. But excellent and (with caveats) unanimous 2nd Amendment decision holding it's unconstitutional to bar marijuana users from owning guns (complete with rare Alito/Kagan concurrence). Great result, though I still don't like Bruen framework. May say more later: supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
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@jimmy_esq If I'm not mistaken, that is the same authority they invoked in their COVID decision too.
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The merits are obviously interesting and important here, but it's also a very neat case to illustrate the diversity of state-level judicial powers. Here, the PA S.Ct. asserts a longstanding "King's Bench" authority that is totally foreign to federal courts. Cool stuff!
Eric W.@EWess92
@DaveSunday_ This is pretty crazy: The 5-2 Democrat Court finds Larry Krasner is so quick to falsely concede error in murder cases (to try to free convicted murderers) that it has tasked the Pennsylvania Attorney General with checking to make sure he's not lying. I've *never* seen this
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@MorosKostas Isn't it also mild progress that they filed a concurrence and not a dissent?
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Interesting that Kagan did not join the Jackson/Sotomayor dissent that calls for overturning Bruen and moving back to tiered scrutiny.
Also, for those on Overton Window watch: Jackson and Sotomayor not calling to overturn Heller or questioning the core individual right to possess firearms.
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@DanLennington @WILawLiberty After the Iowa supreme court decision last week, this is even better!
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💥MAJOR WIN: Wisconsin Supreme Court holds that Evers Admin cannot offer scholarships based on race. This is a huge win for equality & provides a ROADMAP for Wisconsin Taxpayers to challenge many other programs worth BILLIONS. Stay tuned @WILawLiberty
wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/Dis…
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@baseballcrank @jadler1969 Every Thomas concurrence: "Toss it all out." And he's right.
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SCOTUS strikes down the Hunter Biden law (drug addicts can't buy guns). Classic Clarence Thomas concurrence
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In his concurrence in Hemani today, Justice Thomas suggested that the entirety of 18 U.S. 922(g) is unconstitutional.
Over 33 MILLION PEOPLE are banned from using guns under this law.
Do they deserve their rights back?
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@bykatiebuehler A more interesting split of Justices you will never find.
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BREAKING: A 5-4 Supreme Court *upholds* an obscure doctrine that bars federal courts from reviewing challenges to state court rulings that aren’t final decisions from the state’s highest court. #SCOTUS Justices Roberts, Kagan, Gorsuch & Barrett dissent. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
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@scotus_wire "The government’s analogy fails under every measure it asks us to consider: The historical laws on which it relies targeted different kinds of people, did so for different reasons, and operated in different ways." Pure 🔥 from Justice Gorsuch.
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🚨 The Supreme Court ruled that the federal ban on firearm possession by unlawful drug users violates the Second Amendment as applied to a Texas man who regularly used marijuana.
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🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court Has STRUCK DOWN a Gun Ban on Marijuana Users.
In United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the federal govt cannot automatically disarm someone solely for regular marijuana use under Title 18. This is a huge, unexpected win for 2A.
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@freedomcenterlu This is such an important question. The same thing has happened with SFFA and in the Little Sisters of the Poor case.
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Despite the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in Chiles v. Salazar, Oregon fined Catholic counselor Frank Canepa nearly $90,000 for declining to affirm a viewpoint that violated his faith. Why are so many progressive states treating Supreme Court precedent as optional?
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Yes, obviously the people who ended slavery wanted race discrimination in higher education. Silly of me for thinking that's unconstitutional
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@Anastasia_esq More people in California need to become nuisances to their government.
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Napa calls a small winery a nuisance. Meet the family yourself & decide who’s the problem: a former prosecutor & her dad, who have a built a beautiful thing? Or bureaucrats trying to bankrupt them when not one member of the public had been harmed? youtu.be/LjqMX61LHFs?is…
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Ethan Savka retweetledi
Five years ago today, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Philadelphia couldn't shut out faith-based foster care ministries—or heroic foster moms Sharonell Fulton and Toni Simms-Busch—simply because of their religious beliefs. Fulton remains a landmark victory for religious freedom and children in need of loving homes.
Learn more in Becket’s Stream of Conscience podcast episode “Free to Foster.” music.youtube.com/podcast/vm9jEd…
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@RonDeSantis The Constitution explicitly forbids states from doing exactly this: entering into compacts with each other.
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It’s not constitutional to nullify the electoral college through the back door.
Even so, imagine if presidential elections were purely a popular vote — we’d be waiting for a month for California to count the votes!
No thank you.
Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet@Tironianae
JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger officially signs a bill handing over Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes across the whole country… even if Virginians vote the other way. Insane. They rushed it through with mostly Democrat votes. The plan has 222 votes. It needs 270 to actually start working. Once it does, your vote in Virginia doesn’t matter anymore. The Founders made the Electoral College so a few big cities don’t boss the whole country. This is a sneaky Democrat power grab to cheat that. “Every vote counts the same”? Lies. Virginians are pissed off, and they should be. They got played.
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@SenRandPaul A lot of people protesting the MLB pride situation on free speech grounds need to hear this.
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A reminder that the Constitution was not written to restrain the citizens' behavior.
It was written to restrain the government's behavior.
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@jadler1969 Doesn't help when the govt behaves like it has one branch.
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Ethan Savka retweetledi
It's scary how many people don't even have a Schoolhouse Rock-level understanding of our nation's history and constitutional structure
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Remember, the govt.'s position in Citizens United was that it could ban a documentary movie about a major presidential candidate in an election year simply because--like every other movie you have ever seen in a theater, on cable or broadcast, or on a streaming service--a corporation was involved in its production or distribution.
Institute for Free Speech@InstFreeSpeech
"The idea that citizens should be prohibited from criticizing a candidate during an election season because that speech could affect the outcome of the election is absurd. First Amendment exists in large part to facilitate democratic debate and allow voters to make informed decisions," via @insider_ct: ctinsider.com/waterbury/opin…
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If you could require every college freshman in America to study one specific book, what would it be?
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