Ain't That a Shame?

[P5 Guy]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... d=msedgntp

Emanuel, for instance, said that the “Proud Boys are a domestic terrorist group” that would fall under the law. Whatever you think of members of the Proud Boys or Antifa, or whatever group you find most detestable, they are made up of individuals. Emanuel wants to divest adherents of their constitutional rights for thought crimes. That’s not how this works.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/6-bol ... d=msedgdhp

President Joe Biden reiterated his support for legislation to expand background checks and ban assault weapons. For many gun violence prevention advocates, the emphasis on these reforms—ideas that have been floated after every major tragedy since Sandy Hook—isn’t especially encouraging. It’s not that they aren’t welcome proposals (a majority of Americans still support both), it’s that advocates are tired of waiting—and they now see opportunity to make progress, perhaps even have a bigger impact, through a variety of other initiatives that don’t depend on Congress.

But on the other hand mandatory sentences for crimes with a gun are unfair

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/il ... d=msedgdhp

Retired Judge Andrew Berman spoke in support of the measure, saying judges should be given the discretion they’ve historically been entrusted with.

“Trust your judges,” he said. “The rationale for having judges in the first place is to have a thoughtful, fair-minded person consider the unique circumstances of each case and each defendant when imposing sentence.”

[dammitgriff]

Andrew Berman’s opinion conspicuously omits the duty of the judiciary to weigh the law against the Constitution.
Where the federal courts, up to and including the Supreme Court, rely on case law that is biased in the government’s favor, it is the individual and sovereign states that retain the final and determining interpretation of the Constitution, which has always been intended to protect the people from their own government.
R/Griff