Justice Thomas dissented along with Scalia on why SCOTUS should have taken the case of Friedman v. City of Highland Park.
He made statements such as:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...rence-thomas-in-opposing-assault-weapons-ban/
He hasn't asked a question in over 10 years. He finally did break his silence today, and on a gun case. (However, it's probably not the right gun case because these 2 defendents will probably lose).
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/justice_thomas_asks_multiple_questions_in_scotus_arguments
I agree that no Constitutional right should be suspended for a misdemeanor conviction.
Could Justice Thomas take over Justice Scalia's mantle of 2nd Amendment protector?
This sounds familar, my grandma never really talked, but when my grandfather passed away she talks a ton. So, maybe he just over-powered her in the talking area.
He made statements such as:
Thomas noted that even within the Seventh Circuit’s considerations, justices admitted that certain “assault weapons” make formidable self-defense weapons and may be a good choice for that application because they are “less dangerous per shot than larger caliber pistols or revolvers.” Yet the Seventh Circuit upheld the “assault weapons” ban anyway, by recognizing that Heller “holds that a law banning the possession of handguns in the home … violates” the Second Amendment.
Thomas criticized the majority SCOTUS decision to allow the Seventh Circuit’s ruling to stand, suggesting the SCOTUS action runs the risk of allowing the Seventh Circuit to “[relegate] the Second Amendment to a second-class right.” And he pointed to an even greater existential risk arising from allowing “assault weapons” bans to stand when he wrote, “If a broad ban on firearms can be upheld based on conjecture that the public might feel safer (while being no safer at all), then the Second Amendment guarantees nothing.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...rence-thomas-in-opposing-assault-weapons-ban/
He hasn't asked a question in over 10 years. He finally did break his silence today, and on a gun case. (However, it's probably not the right gun case because these 2 defendents will probably lose).
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/justice_thomas_asks_multiple_questions_in_scotus_arguments
Breaking his 10-year silence, Justice Thomas asks multiple questions in SCOTUS arguments on gun law
POSTED FEB 29, 2016 10:25 AM CST
BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS
It’s been 10 years and one week since Justice Clarence Thomas asked a question during Supreme Court oral arguments.
Thomas broke his silence on Monday, report the Associated Press, CNN, HuffPost Politics, Courthouse News Service and tweets by Bloomberg BNA Supreme Court reporter Kimberly Robinson. Thomas asked multiple questions in a case considering the reach of a federal law that bars people who have been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from owning guns.None of the other justices seemed surprised, according to Robinson.
Thomas asked whether any constitutional right, besides a Second Amendment right, could be suspended based on a misdemeanor. He addressed his questions to Justice Department lawyer Ilana Eisenstein in the case Voisine v. United States.
I agree that no Constitutional right should be suspended for a misdemeanor conviction.
Could Justice Thomas take over Justice Scalia's mantle of 2nd Amendment protector?
This sounds familar, my grandma never really talked, but when my grandfather passed away she talks a ton. So, maybe he just over-powered her in the talking area.