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S. Ct. Will Review Whether Second Amendment Allows Disarming of People Subject to Civil Restraining Orders

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    70% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

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    -10% Center

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65% : Unpacking the issue, the Government's argument fails because (1) it is inconsistent with Heller, Bruen, and the text of the Second Amendment, (2) it inexplicably treats Second Amendment rights differently than other individually held rights, and (3) it has no limiting principles....
61% : Under the Government's reading, Congress could remove "unordinary" or "irresponsible" or "non-law abiding" people -- however expediently defined -- from the scope of the Second Amendment.
58% : The Government fails to justify this disparate treatment of the Second Amendment.
55% : While they were influential proposals, neither became part of the Second Amendment as ratified.
52% : Heller explained that the words "the people" in the Second Amendment have been interpreted throughout the Constitution to "unambiguously refer[] to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset."
51% : "This right," which restricted the Militia Act's reach in order to prevent the kind of politically motivated disarmaments pursued by Charles II and James II, "has long been understood to be the predecessor to our Second Amendment."
50% : The Government offers potential historical analogues to § 922(g)(8) that fall generally into three categories: (1) English and American laws (and sundry unadopted proposals to modify the Second Amendment) providing for disarmament of "dangerous" people, (2) English and American "going armed" laws, and (3) colonial and early state surety laws.
49% : And at the Massachusetts convention, Samuel Adams proposed a qualifier to the Second Amendment that limited the scope of the right to "peaceable citizens."
46% : The question is whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), a specific statute that does so, is constitutional under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
44% : The Government's argument that Rahimi falls outside the community covered by the Second Amendment rests on the first approach.

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