“ Appeals Court Blocks Ruling That Overturned California’s Assault Weapons Ban “

[btfc]

“ A U.S. federal appeals court on Monday put on hold a judge’s ruling this month to overturn California’s 32-year-old ban on assault weapons.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez’s June 4 order, after California officials had appealed the federal judge’s decision to strike down the ban on assault-style weapons. “


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/us/as...ornia.html


Alternative source:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s...t-n1271858

[cbelt3]

Straight to the Supreme Court...

[Racer X]

Another very eloquent and well reasoned ruling from Judge Benitez. Quite the refreshing change, to put it mildly.

And if this gets upheld by the Supreme Court, it becomes a done deal, and all other bans will start to fall like dominos.

Be VERY careful what you wish for.

[bfd]

Expected, just like its routing to the Supremes. All planned out. Benitez is a d-ouche tool …

[davester]

Racer X wrote:
Another very eloquent and well reasoned ruling from Judge Benitez.

I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.

[RgrF]

Benitez is the epitome of an activist judge, exactly the sort of judge the hard right rails about unless, of course, it's one of their own.

[pdq]

As I said before, I expect this gun-nutty decicion to be overturned on appeal.

[RgrF]

Benitez and the 9th Circuit have always been at odds, this is a way for him to perhaps get the issue on the SCOTUS docket.

[deckeda]

Nice to see you back, Racer X, despite nothing at all being defensible in the judge’s 94-pages of the attempt. That it was dispatched in one page helps illustrate that.

[deckeda]

Racer X wrote:

... Be VERY careful what you wish for.

Your unstated fear, not ours.

I see a similar argument often used to knock down ideas about voting rights and other things as if too good to be true.

So no, I reject the premise that doing away with the ban was somehow a better thing. Let SCOTUS hear this argument if they want. It’s both comedic and tragic and altogether unserious.