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SAF Reacts as Supreme Court Turns Down 10 Second Amendment Cases<\/strong><\/p>\n By Dave Workman The cases, from across the country, provided what SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb compared to a buffet of legal opportunities for the court to weigh in on a Second Amendment issue for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s refusal to take a Second Amendment Foundation case falls squarely at the feet of Chief Justice John Roberts,\u201d Gottlieb said in a terse prepared statement.<\/p>\n Five of the pending cases had been filed by SAF, including one in which the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms\u2014SAF\u2019s sister organization\u2014was a plaintiff. It was known as Mance v. Barr, challenging the long-standing prohibition on sales of handguns to non-state residents.<\/p>\n \u201cGiven the fact that the Supreme Court had a cafeteria-style menu of cases from which to choose,\u201d he continued, \u201cthere is no excuse why the court at this time chose to ignore the need to rule on any of these cases, and send a message to lower courts that they can no longer thumb their noses at the Heller and McDonald Supreme Court decisions affirming the individual right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n Gottlieb isn\u2019t the only one criticizing the court\u2019s reluctance to take a Second Amendment case. In a spirited dissent published in Monday\u2019s Supreme Court orders, Associate Clarence Thomas was joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in the case of Rogers v. Grewal, which challenged the New Jersey \u201cjustifiable need\u201d requirement to obtain a concealed carry permit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Liberty Park Press Link<\/a><\/p>\n Clarence Thomas: SCOTUS Protects Abortion, \u2018Looks Other Way\u2019 on 2nd Amendment<\/strong><\/p>\n AWR Hawkins The specific case, Rogers v. Grewal, centered on New Jersey\u2019s requirement that citizens show \u201cjustifiable need\u201d for a owning a gun before a handgun permit is issued.<\/p>\n Thomas dissented to SCOTUS\u2019 rejection of the case by reasserting that the Second Amendment protects the \u201cfundamental right\u2026of the people to keep and bear Arms\u2026yet in several jurisdictions throughout the country, law-abiding citizens have been barred from exercising the fundamental right to bear arms because they cannot show that they have a \u2018justifiable need\u2019 or \u2018good reason\u2019 for doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOne would think that such an onerous burden on a fundamental right would warrant this Court\u2019s review,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cThis Court would almost certainly review the constitutionality of a law requiring citizens to establish a justifiable need before exercising their free speech rights.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it seems highly unlikely that the Court would allow aoperqting from an area State to enforce a law requiring a woman to provide a justifiable need before seeking an abortion,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cBut today, faced with a petition challenging just such a restriction on citizens\u2019 Second Amendment rights, the Court simply looks the other way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Breitbart Link<\/a><\/p>\n AG Barr Orders Executions of 4 Federal Inmates Accused of Child Rape Child, Murder<\/strong><\/p>\n Attorney General William P. Barr today directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to schedule the executions of four federal death-row inmates who were convicted of murdering children in violation of federal law and who, in two cases, raped the children they murdered.<\/p>\n In July 2019, Attorney General Barr directed the BOP to revise the Federal Execution Protocol to provide for the use of a single-drug, pentobarbital \u2014 similar to protocols used in hundreds of state executions and repeatedly upheld by federal courts, including the Supreme Court, as consistent with the Eighth Amendment.\u00a0 A district court\u2019s preliminary injunction prevented BOP from carrying out executions under the revised protocol, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated that injunction \u2014 clearing the way for the federal government to resume capital punishment after a nearly two-decade hiatus.<\/p>\n \u201cThe American people, acting through Congress and Presidents of both political parties, have long instructed that defendants convicted of the most heinous crimes should be subject to a sentence of death,\u201d\u00a0said Attorney General William P. Barr.\u00a0 \u201cThe four murderers whose executions are scheduled today have received full and fair proceedings under our Constitution and laws.\u00a0 We owe it to the victims of these horrific crimes, and to the families left behind, to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hat tip to AW1 Rod for the link,<\/p>\n
\nIn a blistering reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s rejection of ten gun rights cases for review, the Second Amendment Foundation declared Chief Justice John Roberts \u201cowes every gun owner in the United States an explanation about why the high court declined to hear a number of important Second Amendment cases.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJustice Clarence Thomas suggested on Monday that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) tolerates requirements on the exercise of the Second Amendment that it would not allow to be applied to abortion or free speech.<\/p>\n