Argument recap: When

Resistance — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:27:22 +0000

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Argument recap: When compromise is the problem

Samuel A. Alito, Jr., conjured up the image of a “Mr. Straw” running a very busy gun-buying operation that showed how easy it was to get around the law. So, Alito said, Congress did something “utterly meaningless.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, with a note of despair in her voice, wondered aloud whether the law was so unclear that it just meant “a buyer is a buyer is a buyer.” She suggested that, if the law were that opaque, could a buyer sell a gun to a person barred from having it? Dietz said there were other laws to take care of that.

Perhaps the low moment for Palmore was when Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., noted that the language in the law had been “fought over, tooth and nail” by the opposing sides in the gun control debate, and that the compromise which resulted simply had nothing to do with the idea of a “straw purchaser.” That, of course, was one of attorney Dietz’s main talking points.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/01/argument-recap-when-compromise-is-the-problem/

Argument preview: Checking up

Resistance — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:18:39 +0000

In reply to US supreme court debates background check laws in anonymous gun sale case

Argument preview: Checking up on gun buyers

The Justice Department urged the Court not to hear the petition, even while conceding that there was some conflict in the lower courts on the scope of the “straw purchaser” law.

Among amici, Abramski has the support of twenty-six states and the territory of Guam, and of a variety of gun owners’ associations, including the NRA.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/01/argument-preview-checking-up-on-gun-buyers/

Case of Abramski v. United States.

Supreme Court Grants Cert in Abramski v. United States

Posted on January 17, 2014

http://www.nraila.org/legal/articles/2014/supreme-court-grants-cert-in-abramski-v-united-states.aspx

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Argument recap: When

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