The Supreme Court said that it won’t take up a Challenge, to Parts of a Federal Law, that Bar Convicted Felons and Drug Users from possessing Firearms.
The Court’s Majority said a Restriction on Domestic Abusers possessing Firearms was Constitutional, because it was in line with a “tradition of firearm regulation” Disarming dangerous Individuals.
This Case is One that could have unraveled Hunter Biden’s Federal Firearms Conviction.
The Court sent the Challenges to the Federal Firearms Bans, back down to a Lower Court with Instructions to Review the Case, in light of their Ruling last Month in U.S. v. Rahimi.
In that Case, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for an 8-1 Majority, said that a 2022 Ruling from the Court that Changed the Framework Federal Courts must use when examining the Nation’s Gun Laws, did Not necessarily lock Lower Courts into striking down any Gun Law, that didn’t have a direct Historic Analogue.
Some Court watchers had speculated that the Court’s opinion in Rahimi, might address Laws Disarming Felons, but the Majority avoided directly wading into the Legal Debate over whether other Federal Gun Prohibitions, including the One at issue in the present Controversy, would also be Upheld.
“At least for now, the court seems unwilling to jump right back into the messy fight that it touched off two years ago in the Bruen case with respect to exactly what the Second Amendment does and doesn’t prohibit,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court Analyst and Professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
“But the punt here is necessarily temporary; lower courts are already bitterly divided over how they’re supposed to review a number of different state and federal gun control laws,” Vladeck added. “It’s a good bet that, before their next term is over, the justices are going to have to step back in.”
The Court Dodged a number of High-Profile matters, either by Declining them Outright or sending them back to Lower Courts. The Justices, for instance, Declined an Appeal Challenging Section 230, a Controversial Law that provides Legal Protection to Social Media companies for posting Third-Party Content.
And it waved Off a Challenge about whether the Department of Labor can enforce Workplace Conditions on American Businesses, an Appeal that could have further Weakened the Power of Federal Agencies.
While that Case was ostensibly focused on One Agency, OSHA, the Political and Legal underpinnings were far Deeper: Conservatives have for years sought to revive what’s known as the Nondelegation Doctrine, the idea that Congress can’t Hand-Off Legislative decisions to the Executive Branch.
A Ruling against the Labor Department could have had profound Implications for the Balance of Power between the Branches of Government.
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