Will the Supreme Court Toss Out a Gun Law Meant to Protect Women?

[elleng]

by Linda Greenhouse

'Ever since the Supreme Court agreed in June to hear the government’s appeal of a particularly noxious Second Amendment ruling, I had been curious to see which “friends of the court” might emerge on the gun-rights side.

Supporting the lower court’s judgment figured to be a delicate task. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, interpreting the Supreme Court’s sweeping and destabilizing 2022 Bruen gun rights decision, declared unconstitutional a federal law that prohibits a person subject to a court-issued restraining order for domestic violence from owning a gun. There was no analogous prohibition when the Second Amendment was adopted, the Fifth Circuit panel declared, and so under the Bruen decision’s history-is-all-that-counts reasoning, there could be none today.

Granted, the current Supreme Court majority has already turned the Second Amendment into a runaway train, but this new case, United States v. Rahimi, to be argued on Tuesday, may tell us whether the train has jumped the tracks entirely.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/guns-domestic-abuse-supreme-court.html

[Lovie777]

1. The RW 6.............................

have very little concern about women's health and welfare.

[Chainfire]

2. I would give better than even odd that the deep six the law. Why wouldn't they?

The Gun industry has a friend in Jesus and the Supreme Court.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Given their past dismissal of any concerns for women they may side with domestic abusers.

After all, they’re mostly men and to the religious right men have a right to “correct” the behavior of wives and partners. Republicans in some states are also now trying to pass laws eliminating no-fault divorce to make it harder for women to escape bad or abusive marriages. The Republican message to women is clearly that they don’t matter in the least.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. SCOTUS solution will be to arm women at home. Balance of power.

This will be described as a Christian solution.

[moniss]

5. Cash and Carry Clarence and

his pals may very well hide behind the open acceptance in the late 1700's of men beating their wives and children and say that is their precedent and context.

[Yonnie3]

6. Paywall free gift link to this editorial

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/guns-domestic-abuse-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8kw.DFqZ.saA4oWDC0F-0&smid=url-share

[elleng]

7. Thank you.