https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ghts-appeals-turned-away-by-u-s-supreme-court The U.S. Supreme Court turned away 10 appeals that sought to broaden constitutional firearm protections, rejecting calls for rights to own a semi-automatic assault rifle and carry a handgun in public. The rebuffs are a blow to the gun-rights movement, which has been trying for a decade to get the court to take up a major new Second Amendment case. They have been banking on Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who replaced the swing vote Anthony Kennedy in 2018, to make the court more assertive on the issue. The rejections included challenges to New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland laws that sharply limit who can get a permit to carry a handgun for self-defense. Other unsuccessful appeals challenged assault-weapon bans in Massachusetts and Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago. Kavanaugh joined Justice Clarence Thomas in saying the court should have agreed to hear a challenge to a New Jersey law that requires people to show a “justifiable need” to get a carry permit. Critics say very few people can meet that standard. “One would think that such an onerous burden on a fundamental right would warrant this court’s review,” Thomas wrote for the pair. In addition, the Supreme Court refused to scrutinize a California safety law that critics say effectively bans the sale of new handgun models by requiring technology that doesn’t currently exist in the marketplace. And the court left intact a federal law that bars dealers from selling handguns directly to people in other states. The justices earlier this year dropped a fight over New York City’s restrictions on the transportation of licensed handguns. The court said that dispute became moot after the city and state changed their laws.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/politics/sanctuary-cities-california-supreme-court/index.html Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court opinion upholding one of California's so-called sanctuary laws that limits cooperation between law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, a measure that the Trump administration says is meant to "undermine" federal immigration enforcement. The Trump administration had asked the court to step in and review the law and the court declined to do so. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two of the Court's conservative members, supported taking up the case. The law -- and others like it -- have ignited a firestorm between the federal government, which has made immigration enforcement a top priority, and some states that say they are within their rights to determine how best to use their own resources. During his State of the Union speech last January, President Donald Trump lamented California's effort, which he classified as an "outrageous law."
I'm trying to figure out how this is a blow to conservatives? Are you saying you cannot be gay and conservative? You may be confusing conservatism and evangelicals. Not the same.
Also has nothing much to do with conservatism, this is a local statute technical matter. Illegal immigration is still well... illegal. lol.
This is not true. The most conservative justices voted against all of the rulings listed above. What I will say is that more and more so-called conservatives are becoming less opposed to freedom and justice for all. That is good.
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court opinion upholding one of California's so-called sanctuary laws that limits cooperation between law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, a measure that the Trump administration says is meant to "undermine" federal immigration enforcement. The Trump administration had asked the court to step in and review the law and the court declined to do so.
Yes that is good. Admittedly being "conservative" or "liberal" is subjective anyway. Not like there is some strict definition.
Maybe they feel that a business should be able to fire and hire whoever they want at any time, gay straigh or bi which is a hole other topic right or wrong. That doesn't have anything to do with hating on gay people. I seriously doubt Brett Sam and Clarence hate and want to see discrimination against gays.