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June 27, 2022
RACISM AND HATE AND DISCRIMINATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA’S GUN POLICY: Another gun case waits in the wings.
Allen Whitaker is a resident of Washington, D.C., who holds a handgun license. In April 2019, police stopped Whitaker, who is Black and wears dreadlocks, and his male cousin at gunpoint when they were returning from a gun range with Whitaker’s daughter and girlfriend and stopped at a gas station at which a few of the other patrons got into an altercation. Noticing that Whitaker wore an empty pistol holster on his waist, the officers handcuffed the two men. They searched the vehicle as well as Whitaker and his family, found an amount of marijuana legally permissible in the District belonging to Whitaker’s girlfriend, and seized both the marijuana and Whitaker’s gun that was stored in a lockbox in the trunk. The police eventually released Whitaker and his family without charge, but they refused to return the handgun.
After applying to register a new firearm, Whitaker received notice from the Metropolitan Police Department that his gun license would be revoked. D.C. law allows the MPD to determine whether a person is a “suitable” applicant to own a handgun. The notice explained that the gas-station incident, combined with Whitaker’s misdemeanor criminal history that had been evaluated in his originally approved application for a gun license, demonstrated a “propensity for violence or instability” unsuitable for a firearm owner. The Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board denied Whitaker’s administrative appeal. Whitaker filed suit in the D.C. Court of Appeals, which dismissed the case as moot after the MPD voluntarily reinstated Whitaker’s license mid-litigation. In Whitaker v. District of Columbia Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board, Whitaker asks the justices to review two aspects of the appeals court’s dismissal.
On the merits, Whitaker argues that the D.C. regulation is unconstitutionally vague. The “propensity for violence or instability” standard, Whitaker says, “confers standardless discretion on the MPD to disqualify anyone [for a gun license] based on the agency’s subjective judgment.”
I agree, and the Court should, too.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST VIOLENCE: Report: Rudy Giuliani attacked by worker at Staten Island supermarket.
Our speech is violence, their violence is speech: Blue-check professor asks if the alleged attack on Rudy Giuliani today really qualifies as an ‘attack.’
JONATHAN TURLEY: The Dobbs Decision and the Resumption of the State-by-State Abortion Debate.
26 states asked the court to overrule Roe and its successor, Casey. With Dobbs, we will now have a new political debate over access and any limitations for abortion. Most citizens are in the middle on this debate.
While a strong majority support Roe v. Wade, they also support limitations on abortion. Polls also show that 65% of Americans would make most abortions illegal in the second trimester, and 80% would make most abortions illegal in the third trimester. (The United States is one of only 12among the world’s 198 countries that allow abortions for any reason after 20 weeks.)
President Joe Biden responded to the opinion by calling, again, for a federalization of the Roe standard by Congress. Even if the votes could be found to pass such a law, it is not clear that it would be upheld by a court that has now returned this issue to the states.
One thing Biden said was clearly true. Abortion will now be “on the ballot.” The justices were indeed motivated by the need for the public to make these decisions and wrote that “Roe abruptly ended that political process.”
The issue will loom large in the upcoming election now that states will decide their own laws, ranging from prohibitions to restrictions to absolute guarantees. And the outcome will turn on the votes of millions of citizens rather than nine justices.
Letting voters decide. How anti-democratic.
SOMETIMES, RARELY, THE PROMO POST AND VIGNETTES GOES UP ON TIME*: Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
Its a promo post for mostly indie writers. And the vignette challenge often attracts very good writers.
*Okay, almost on time.
I SWEAR THEY HAVE A TIME MACHINE IN THEIR BASEMENT: This is one of The Babylon Bee’s best.
IN OTHER NEWS, MORMONS THREATEN TO ABSTAIN FROM COFFEE, ALCOHOL: Sex Strike! Abstinence trends on Twitter in wake of Roe v. Wade ruling.
TO BE FAIR IT’S A SHORT ROAD AND WELL PAVED: Looking around: the “free money revolution” is eating its children; observations on Roe vs. Wade repeal and how it is driving US left insane(r).
THOSE RADICAL LUTHERANS! Oslo, Norway residents go to Pride parade after gunman kills at gay bar.
BUT FORTUNATELY NORWAY HAS GUN LAWS THAT MEAN THIS CAN’T HAPPEN! What can the U.S. learn from Norway’s gun laws?
Oh, wait, never mind….
WAIT… WAS IT MEANT TO? The Roe Decision Won’t Save the Democrats.
OH YES, WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT CASTREAU’S INPUT: So now we have Justin Trudeau weighing in on the overturning of Roe…
THINGS ARE JUST GOING TO CHANGE: Wrecking Ball.
THE LEFT IS NOW OFFICIALLY RIDICULOUS: Today’s blacklisted Americans: Lawyers who won NY gun rights case in Supreme Court blackballed by their law firm.
AND YET AMERICA WILL SURVIVE: America Is More Fragile Than the Left Understands.
It’s going to be rough, but we’ll survive. Things are just going to change.
OH, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE: Illegal Immigrants Quietly Being Pardoned By Biden Administration.
OH, DEAR LORD: Gloria Steinem Offers Free Lodging For Abortion-Seekers.
OTHER FEMINISTS MOST AFFECTED: ‘Feminists’ Propose ‘Sex Strike’ After Supreme Court Abortion Ruling.
IT’S TIME TO DEPEND ON US: Shortages of Neon, Other Rare Gases Likely in Wake of Russia Limiting Exports.
A free country dependent for essentials on totalitarian countries isn’t free. We need to be dependent on us.
AND THEN THE GOVERNMENT CAN CLOSE IT AT WILL…. It Costs $22,648 And Requires 11 Agencies To Start A Restaurant In San Francisco.