As the supreme court upends precedent again and again, the liberal justices reveal the divisions within the legal body
On Friday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered an acidic sermon against the court’s 6-3 decision to end lower courts’ practice of issuing nationwide injunctions to block federal executive orders, reading her dissent directly from the bench in a move meant to highlight its importance.
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” states Sotomayor’s dissent, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown-Jackson. “Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.”
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Who is “they”? What you wrote doesn’t describe anyone I know. The people I know are deeply afraid, angry, and at times despondent. They try not to think too much about what’s happening and just live their lives hoping that this will pass in 2027 or 2029 because they can’t come to terms emotionally or mentally with what will happen otherwise.
I’ve never met a single American gun owner that didn’t know how to operate their firearm with ease unless it was their first day handling one. It’s not some scary or complex thing to use. I’ve been shooting guns since I was six years old.
I also don’t know anyone that thinks much if any of this kind of stuff. Though I do have SOME faith in the military behaving themselves, maybe not the national guard… but the other branches.
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Rural living in the USA is an interesting thing, I wouldn’t say my family was extremely gun friendly. My mother hates them but my father wanted to start hunting again and it was a good way for him and I to bond as there wasn’t many other mutual interests. The vast majority of boys (and some girls) in my grade school through high school all hunted and “owned” several firearms before they were able to drive a car. I knew how to maintain my weapons, hunt, prep, and butcher all kinds of wild game before I was out of high school. It’s just a culture thing. These days I’m a city slicker so it seems like a different world in my past now but it’s certainly where I came from.
And you are right, it is a different thing in a gunfight. But life and death situations make people do extreme things.
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Oh right like the US military hasn’t lost a bunch of wars against barely-trained insurgents over the last idk better part of a century
Fuck outta here with this soldier worship rhetoric
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They won’t even be dragged out of a house in the middle of the night.
The house will be obliterated by a reaper drone from miles away.