by Lumpy on Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:25 am
Why is the SCOTUS as an institution so unfriendly to Second Amendment cases? It isn't just individual justices or even Chief Justices, this has been a pattern going back literally a lifetime or more. We got Heller and McDonald only because the plaintiffs found a way to back the court into a corner it couldn't escape from, and at the time we for once had an originalist Chief Justice. But that's the glaring exception to the rule that J. Thomas has bitterly complained about. It isn't even that the SC wants to uphold a collectivist interpretation of the 2nd, it simply doesn't want to touch the entire subject with a 20-foot pole. WTF? Is it a case of "The Embarrassing Second Amendment", that following the letter of the Constitution would pull down the sky?