FPC and FPF Urge US Supreme Court to Restore the Right to Carry Arms

FPC and FPF Urge US Supreme Court to Restore the Right to Carry Arms U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF) announced the filing of an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in the case of NYSRPA v. Corlett, a case involving the right to bear arms in public. The brief is available at FPCLegal.org. New York State forbids ordinary law-abiding citizens to carry a firearm outside the home without a license. To acquire a licence, an...
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Oaths and Offices

Another tricky question under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is the definition of a state officer who is subject to the exclusion from office. The Federal Constitution contains no definition of a state officer, though Article VI says that all state executive and judicial officers "shall be bound by Oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution." One way of looking at this is that all state officers must take this oath. And maybe the definition of an officer who must take the oa...
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Relist Watch

John Elwood reviews Tuesday’s relists Not much is happening in D.C. right , so what can the Supreme Court do to give us a break from the tedium of endless ? How about keeping all of last week’s 10 new relists around another week — and adding 10 more new relists! The court won’t be meeting in conference for four weeks after this Friday. But with so many relists primed to grant, the court may make substantial inroads on filling its fall argument calendar on the next order list. Seven of this wee...
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For some, GI tract may be vulnerable to COVID-19 infection

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that patients with Barrett's esophagus may be vulnerable to coronavirus infection from what they swallow.
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Read the email Expensify's CEO sent to customers on MLK Day outlining the company's plan to fight injustices with a 'highly experimental' crowdsourced campaign

Expensify Expensify will spend an extra $3 million to fight systemic injustices in 2021. CEO David Barrett outlined a "highly experimental" plan to let volunteers and donors choose causes. Expensify will focus on climate change, homelessness, hunger, criminal justice, and youth issues. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Expensify plans to donate an additional $3 million toward causes tackling a range of "systemic injustices" in 2021 through its charity arm, Expensify.org,...
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Expensify CEO slams corporate America's response to the Capitol riots: 'Defending the free market does not mean standing by as people destroy it'

David Barrett. David Barrett Expensify CEO David Barrett slammed corporate America's response to the attacks on the US Capitol. Barrett told Insider that defending free markets requires first defending democracy. He also told Protocol most CEOs are "cowards" for refusing to take those stands. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. As more companies publicly condemn the violent attacks on the US Capitol and pause their financial support for the lawmakers who helped fuel an atte...
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Argument analysis: Justices sympathetic to FCC in media ownership dispute

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday morning in a dispute arising from the Federal Communications Commission’s attempts to deregulate local media ownership. After nearly an hour and a half of debate, the justices seemed inclined to uphold the FCC’s efforts – even if not on the ground that big broadcasters would prefer. FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project and National Association of Broadcasters v. Prometheus Radio Project, which the court consolidated for oral argument, center on the FCC...
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Playing with Words While the World Burns: The Constitution Does Not Bar Future Senate Impeachment after January 20

  Victoria Nourse              There is significant Senate precedent that Donald Trump may be impeached after his Term ends. Experts on impeachment have explained the historical precedents. There are good reasons for this.   Why is impeachment necessary when the officer is not in office?   Answer: to bar the President from reelection and life-long taxpayer pensions. Unfortunately, when the impeachment trial begins, we are likely to see arguments from the President like the ones we ha...
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Air Force Recommends Space Command Move to Alabama

With one week left on the job, Secretary Barrett picked Huntsville. The decision, however, is not final.
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Justices are “in the process” of getting COVID vaccines; some have received both doses

Some Supreme Court justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, have received both doses of the coronavirus vaccine, and the court says plans are in place for all nine justices to become fully vaccinated. Kathy Arberg, a spokesperson for the court, declined to say how many justices (or which ones) have not yet received both doses. She confirmed, however, that Roberts is among a group of “some” justices who have been given both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which requires two shots adm...
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Argument analysis: Justices weigh mootness after change in government policy in cases seeking nominal damages

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the case of a Georgia student who was stopped from handing out religious literature and speaking about his faith on the campus of his public college. The student, Chike Uzuegbunam, argued that the college’s policies violated the First Amendment, but shortly after the lawsuit was filed the college changed its policies to allow students to generally speak anywhere on campus without a permit. The question before the court on Tuesday in Uzuegbunam ...
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Argument analysis: A complex question of immigration bond

The Supreme Court heard argument on Monday by telephone in Pham v. Guzman Chavez, which raises a complex question about bond for migrants in removal proceedings. The justices asked hard questions of both sides. Paul Hughes, counsel for respondents, phones in to argue with a view of Union Station in the background (Art Lien) The case involves migrants with “reinstated” removal orders, meaning they were previously deported, subsequently returned to the U.S., and now have pending claims for the “...
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Here's what could happen to Section 230 - the internet law Donald Trump hates - now the Democrats have both Houses

President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File The Georgia runoffs resulted in the Democrats winning the Senate, meaning they now control both Houses. For Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, this means they will have to start planning for when the Biden administration turns its attention to Section 230 — the part of US law that grants broad protections to platforms for user-generated content. The President-elect has previously said ...
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Trump and Republican officials have won zero out of at least 42 lawsuits they've filed since Election Day

President Donald Trump. Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump's campaign and Republican officials have filed dozens of lawsuits since Election Day in an effort to contest the results of the 2020 election. The campaign filed lawsuits and motions to intervene in cases in swing states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. They've notched zero victories, 38 cases where they've withdrawn or lost, and have four cases pending. Scroll down for a list of lawsuit...
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NARAL President Ilyse Hogue says the organization is 'certainly preparing' for the end of Roe v. Wade

NARAL president Ilyse Hogue speaks at a protest against the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on October 22, 2020. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Care In Action NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue said in a recent Daily Beast podcast interview the organization is working to protect women's reproductive rights with a deeply conservative Supreme Court in place. In a discussion with editor-at-large Molly Jong-Fast, Hogue discussed Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ...
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A bloggy review of the sentencing year that was 2020

I always enjoy "year in review" pieces, even in years like 2020 that many folks may quite rightly be quite eager to forget.  So I figured I might as well "celebrate" the end of a rough year with a "bloggy" accounting of 2020 based on an all-too-quick review of some blog posts from the past year.  This accounting is not meant to be representative or even all that reflective of the year that was, it is just a list of a few post titles catching my eye for each month as I went though my 2020 archive...
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: The Complete Clerk Roster For October Term 2020

With Justice Barrett's first set of clerks, plus the destinations of the late Justice Ginsburg's clerks.
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2H 2020 Quick Links, Part 2 (Section 230)

* Griffin v. Google, 2020 WL 6781624 (S.D. Ga. Nov. 18, 2020). “Plaintiff only alleges these Defendants failed to screen to make sure their users were legal entities without providing any other basis for liability….Aside from some very limited exceptions, which are not applicable here, internet companies, including social media companies, are generally immune from suit for content posted on their platforms by third parties under the Communications Decency Act. 47 U.S.C. § 230; Almeida v. Amazon...
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Year in review: The stories in 2020 that shook and shaped America

2020 was defined by major political, health, and social developments. Clockwise from top left: Nurse receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Mitch McConnell, Black Lives Matter protest. Clockwise from top left: Marco Cantile/LightRocket via Getty Images, Win McNamee/Getty Images, Drew Angerer/Getty Images, STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty Images From Kobe Bryant's death to murder hornets to the ongoing stimulus ...
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Barrett MRAD SMR, 1 Mile Shot Attempt – Video Review

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- For quite a while now I’ve been wanting to shoot a mile. A few years ago I shot a 1000 yards for the first time, and I was immediately hooked. Long range shooting is thrilling in a way that is sometimes hard to convey to those who have never done it. The skill involved in calculating the drop and wind, to make a bullet fly that far, and land on target is very rewarding. After making that first 1000 Yard shot, it wasn’t terribly long after that I started thinking about...
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Barrett To Deliver First Advanced Sniper Rifles to US SOCOM in Early 2021

Barrett Firearms Manufacturing recently announced that they have received the first order for the ASR (Advanced Sniper Rifle) from the US Special Operations Command. The $50 million contract to provide the ASR was awarded back in March 2019. The ASR tender as Barrett’s MRAD or Multi Role Adaptive Design selected. The first delivery of rifles is […] Read More … The post Barrett To Deliver First Advanced Sniper Rifles to US SOCOM in Early 2021 appeared first on The Firearm Blog.
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Barrett To Deliver First Advanced Sniper Rifle’s to US SOCOM in Early 2021

Barrett Firearms Manufacturing recently announced that they have received the first order for the ASR (Advanced Sniper Rifle) from the US Special Operations Command. The $50 million contract to provide the ASR was awarded back in March 2019. The ASR tender as Barrett’s MRAD or Multi Role Adaptive Design selected. The first delivery of rifles is […] Read More … The post Barrett To Deliver First Advanced Sniper Rifle’s to US SOCOM in Early 2021 appeared first on The Firearm Blog.
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Tuesday round-up

Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Supreme Court Justices Can Get Vaccinated Now. The Rest Of The Courts Are On Their Own. (Zoe Tillman, Buzzfeed News) Abortion, gun control: conservatives steer pet cases towards supreme court with Barrett on bench (Tom McCarthy, The Guardian) Supreme Court Argument Tips From 16 Lawyers Who Made Virus-Era Debuts (Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal) Texas and Trump: The Case of Ohio’s Attorney General David Yo...
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Senior Republican says party’s final election challenge will ‘go down like a shot dog’

Trump continues to make baseless claims of mass electoral fraud, and has reportedly attacked both McConnell and PenceDonald Trump has reportedly acknowledged in private that his attempt to overturn the election result will fail, while a senior Republican in the Senate said on Monday a challenge coming in the House of Representatives will “go down like a shot dog”. Related: Abortion, gun control: conservatives steer pet cases towards supreme court with Barrett on bench Continue reading...
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Trump and Republican officials have won zero out of at least 40 lawsuits they've filed since Election Day

President Donald Trump. Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump's campaign and Republican officials have filed dozens of lawsuits since Election Day in an effort to contest the results of the 2020 election. The campaign filed lawsuits and motions to intervene in cases in swing states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. They've notched zero victories, 36 cases where they've withdrawn or lost, and have four cases pending. Scroll down for a list of lawsuit...
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More than 100 pastors call on Loeffler to stop spreading 'reprehensible falsehoods' about Warnock, denouncing them as 'an attack against the Black Church'

GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock appear during a debate on December 6, 2020, in Atlanta. Ben Gray/AP Photo A group of over 100 pastors criticized the campaign strategy of GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, calling her out for political attacks against Democrat Raphael Warnock which they feel have devolved into "a broader attack against the Black Church." "We call on you to cease and desist your false characterizations of Reverend Warnock as 'radical' or 's...
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As LA County allows indoor worship, some are already there, but others aren’t rushing it

Like many weekends during the pandemic, worshipers arrived at Grace Community Church on Sunday, Dec. 20. As they flowed into morning services, congregants were declaring a victory after months of their pastor’s legal battle over the ability to worship indoors. A day earlier, Los Angeles County’s public health officials modified their health order, allowing houses of worship to once again host services inside their buildings. Here, the ruling was seen as vindication after months of defying the pr...
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New report: Deputy slain at Borderline Bar massacre in Thousand Oaks had tripped and was shot by colleague

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A sheriff’s sergeant accidentally shot by a fellow law enforcement officer as they responded to a mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks bar had tripped and fallen during the chaos and was struck by the fatal bullet when he stood up and tried to retreat, according to a prosecutors’ report Thursday that finds both officers acted lawfully when they fired their weapons. The report by the Ventura County District Attorney’s office provides the most deta...
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Den. Dianne Feinstein Says She Hasn’t Considered Leaving Senate Early

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said this week she hasn’t thought about retiring before her term ends in 2024 and defended herself against criticism of her job performance and questions about her age. “I don’t feel my cognitive abilities have diminished,” Feinstein told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Thursday. “Do I forget something sometimes? Quite possibly.” At 87, Feinstein is the Senate’s oldest member. In 2018 she won reelection for ...
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Pascrell Demands Removing ‘Treasonous’ Republicans from Congress

First, we confiscate your guns and then we put you on trial for opposing us. OK? (Bill Pascrell for Congress/Facebook) U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “BREAKING: I’m demanding that the 126 Republicans who have endorsed a malignant lawsuit to overturn the will of the people and undermine our democracy not be seated in Congress,” New Jersey Democrat Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. tweeted Friday. He was announcing his letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in which he made clear his definitions of “insu...
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