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Scotus grants big victory to mass murderers.
Powerful dissent from Justice
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
Sotomayor’s dissent in Garland v. Cargill, which Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan joined, she called out how her conservative colleagues had basically bent over backwards to redefine the legal definition of a “machine gun.” She noted that these linguistic gymnastics are particularly galling given how much conservative jurists claim to prize textualism—a theory that stresses adhering closely to the plain text of the law and to the ordinary meaning of the statutory text and unsupported by context or purpose.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. A bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle fires "automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger." §5845(b). Be- cause I, like Congress, call that a machinegun, I respectfully dissent.
#scotus #scotusIsCorrupt
Powerful dissent from Justice
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
Sotomayor’s dissent in Garland v. Cargill, which Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan joined, she called out how her conservative colleagues had basically bent over backwards to redefine the legal definition of a “machine gun.” She noted that these linguistic gymnastics are particularly galling given how much conservative jurists claim to prize textualism—a theory that stresses adhering closely to the plain text of the law and to the ordinary meaning of the statutory text and unsupported by context or purpose.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. A bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle fires "automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger." §5845(b). Be- cause I, like Congress, call that a machinegun, I respectfully dissent.
#scotus #scotusIsCorrupt