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Friday, June 24th, 2022

Critics Say New Supreme Court Ruling Gives Gun Lobby ‘Just What It Paid For’

Author:     Jake Johnson
Source:     Common Dreams
Publication Date:     June 23, 2022
 Link: Critics Say New Supreme Court Ruling Gives Gun Lobby ‘Just What It Paid For’
Stephan:   The christofascist cabal on the Supreme Court has just made your life more dangerous, particularly if you live in a large city where gun murders are already a serious problem. This group of Trumpers have gutted the laws to carry weapons in public Given what we see almost daily going on somewhere in the U.S. it is hard to imagine how Clarence Thomas, who wrote the opinion, and the others could justify such a ruling but, of course, millions were paid to Republicans to get them on the court, so this is just payback to them. It is getting very dangerous in America, particularly if you are a person of color, or obviously an LGBTQ individual, to go to public places because violence is all too common. You should note that the opinion was written by Clarence Thomas who, in my view, should not be on the Supreme Court and whose corruption is so obvious, and yet nothing is being done about him.
Wayne LaPierre, CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The National Rifle Association’s decades-long campaign against even the most basic and popular firearm regulations scored another victory Thursday when the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key New York state gun control law, a ruling that could spell doom for similar statutes across the country.

The NRA has spent big in recent years to fill state and federal courts—including the Supreme Court—with judges that are hostile to gun regulations. In 2017, the gun lobby dropped $1 million on ads supporting former President Donald Trump’s nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch, a successful campaign that it repeated in subsequent years to ensure the confirmation of Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

“The Court That Dark Money Built just handed a massive win to a gun industry that drives horrific violence in this country.”

All three of those judges—along with Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts—supported Justice Clarence Thomas’ new majority opinion

✎ EditSign invalidating New York’s century-old restrictions on the concealed carry of firearms in public. […]

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