cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16783334

8-1 with Thomas the dissent.

“The court and government do not point to a single historical law revoking a citizen’s Second Amendment right based on possible interpersonal violence,” Thomas wrote. “Yet, in the interest of ensuring the Government can regulate one subset of society, today’s decision puts at risk the Second Amendment rights of many more.”

  • Coffee Addict
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    425 months ago

    Lol of course Thomas would be the only one to dissent. Though, I am surprised that Alito didn’t also.

    To be honest, I am kinda surprised this was upheld at all, given how conservative the supreme court is.

    Not that I’m complaining; at the very least it’s a step in the direction for gun control.

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        105 months ago

        I see that now at the end of the article; it’s his second absence.

        Still, the ruling says 8-1. Did he rule for it in his absence? Or should the ruling actually be 7-1-1 (or something?)

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          5 months ago

          It takes a long time to deliver these decisions. The majority opinion is written weeks beforehand, with hundreds of man hours put into it by the justices and their clerks. Alito would have already read and approved it (or he would have joined Thomas in dissent). They heard the arguments for the case on another day, this is just the deliverance of the ruling.

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            55 months ago

            This makes sense.

            I am still surprised Alito voted with the majority lol.