Category: Legal
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DHS v D.V.D.
You know you done f’ed up when Kagan is siding with the conservative side of the court. I voted to deny the Government’s previous stay application in this case, and I continue to believe that this Court should not have stayed the District Court’s April 18 order enjoining the Government from deporting non-citizens to third…
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Cops, Good and Bad(ish)
The differences are amazing. A few months ago, somebody was shooting in the back forty. This caused somebody to report gun shots in the area. Must be some out of stater who has no ability to keep their nose in their own business. Because it was a “shots heard”, the local cops, who I consider…
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Trump v. CASA, Inc 606 U.S. ____(2025) No. 24A884
“Well, bless your heart.” “Even the gun nuts want assault weapons bans, they keep telling me ‘come and take it’” “May you live in interesting times.” All of these sound polite yet are not. They have meaning that is decades or even centuries old. “Bless your heart” is a southern way of politely saying, “you…
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The Rabbit Hole of Legal Speak
The district courts have been attacking the Trump administration wherever possible. Many have overstepped their authority to intrude on the Article II executive. A judge in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts decided that he was a final arbitrator of United States foreign policy. To that end, he issued a preliminary…
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Nguyen v. Bonta, No. 24-2035, Doc. 54 (9th Cir.)
(Feature Image is Raymond M. DiGuiseppe, who argued the case before the Ninth Circuit merits panel) This was a big case with all the big names involved. We had Chuck Michel and Anna Barvir from Michel & Associates PC. If there is a Second Amendment case happening in California, they are likely to be there.…
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My Dicta Good, Your Dicta Bad
Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. … courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. This bit of text is quoted in almost every case where the state is defending their…
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Barnett v. Raoul, 24-3060 7th cir
The state has stepped up and opened their mouth in an Amicus brief in (not a good cite). The gist of the case is that the state of Illinois had a Bruen tantrum and created a new assault weapon and magazine ban. Now the United States DoJ is sticking their oar in the water. Ugh.…
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Smith & Wesson v. Mexico
In a unanimous opinion, delivered by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held: Because Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant gun manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers, PLCAA bars the lawsuit — 605 U.S. ____ (2025) Thomas and Jackson both wrote concurring opinions. I have not…
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SCOTUS Follow Up
Yesterday’s article was a surprise to me. I started the post with one mindset, and ended in a different place. Occasionally, it helps to talk out your issues. It started with my statement, Snope should have been GVRed. Why? Because the Supreme Court has already done a gun ban case. It is a slam dunk,…
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SCOTUS, a rant
During the term, the Supreme Court has multiple conferences. The Friday conference is when they decide which cases will be granted cert, which will be denied, and other issues relating to cases, outside of opinions. On the following Monday, they publish their order list. This is a list of all the cases they have an…