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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Damn, the rightwing justices are really ready to trash stare decisis.

It will completely upend the American legal system, law school training, etc.

This is wildly radical and anarchist. [/quote]

They need to be careful.  If they overturn stare decisis and start the slippery slope that some Constitutional rights can be abridged, you can bet that there will be new restrictions on 2A from liberal states.  If SCOTUS determines that RvW can be abridged, then there is no protection for 2A any longer.  As long as the right to bear arms is preserved, states can then instituted many restrictions on what types of guns, how to register guns, when and where users are allowed to carry, etc.

If stare decisis no longer protects Roe or Casey, then it definitely will not protect Heller.[/quote]

I'd take that deal, just because thousands of lives are lost to gun violence every year and not that many lives will be lost to back-alley abortions. As a woman, I know it's a stinky deal and fundamentally unfair, since any civilized country has BOTH abortion rights AND gun control... but gun control would at least salvage an otherwise horrific decision.
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You are assuming that the partisan hacks currently on the court are consistent and principled. They are not. Their principles extend as a far as they need to reliably deliver right wing needs. If the right wing wants gun ownership stripped from black men, they will figure out a way to do it while preserving the rights of white men. Guarantee it. Hacks gonna hack.[/quote]

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