Raskin Claims SCOTUS Flies the NRA Flag ‘Above the Constitution’

[mystery-ak]

Raskin Claims SCOTUS Flies the NRA Flag ‘Above the Constitution’

Pam Key 14 Jun 2024

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that the Supreme Court striking down a ban on bump stocks is like flying the National Rifle Association flag “way above the Constitution and the public safety.”

Raskin said, “It was outrageous, of course. It was not just Justice Sotomayor who said that this bird quacks like a duck and walked like a duck, it was the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. So it was the governing agency which said that a semiautomatic weapon equipped with a bump stock operates exactly like a machine gun and should be treated that way.”

He continued, “Of course it was in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre where 58 people were destroyed and more than 500 wounded, fundamentally altering the lives of hundreds of people and snuffing out the lives of 58 of them. Trump at that point pretended at least to support that action as a substitute for universal violent criminal background check and for a complete ban on military style assault weapons. Now they get the justices he brags about putting on the court to overturn Roe v. Wade and they also strike this down.”

Raskin added, “The Flag of America they fly upside down. The flag of the NRA they fly right-side up, and they fly it very high. Way above the rule of law, way above the Constitution and the public safety of the people.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/06/14/raskin-claims-scotus-flies-the-nra-flag-above-the-constitution/

[PeteS in CA]

If Raskin doesn't like the USSC ruling that applies the plain wording of the statute than Raskin should do the work to amend the statute. Though it may be that his whine is a tacit admission that any such an amendment might be ruled unconstitutional.

[mountaineer]

Any sympathy I might have had for his cancer battle has been nullified by his stupidity.

[libertybele]

 

[the OlLine Rebel]

1 guy flies the US flag upside down.  Your guys REGULARLY for 50 years of “protests” and riots burn the flag and stomp on it into the ground.

Shut up, you God damn communist.

[Wingnut]

I think all that Chemo ate his brain.  The guy is psychotic.

[PeteS in CA]

A LESSON IN THE RULE OF LAW

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/06/a-lesson-in-the-rule-of-law.php

The issue in the case was whether a bump stock transforms a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun within the meaning of 26 U. S. C. §5845(b). The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had always taken the position that a rifle with a bump stock is not a machine gun. After the Las Vegas massacre, ATF abruptly reversed course and banned bump stocks.

... This is the statutory definition of a machine gun:

…any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.

Justice Thomas’ majority opinion (it was a 6-3 decision) patiently explains why a bump stock, while it might help a shooter to increase his rate of fire, does not “automatically” fire “more than one shot” “by a single function of the trigger.” A basic principle of the rule of law is that a statute means what it says, not what a liberal judge thinks it might better have said.

Justice Alito’s concurring opinion makes the point briefly:

The horrible shooting spree in Las Vegas in 2017 did not change the statutory text or its meaning. That event demonstrated that a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock can have the same lethal effect as a machinegun, and it thus strengthened the case for amending §5845(b). But an event that highlights the need to amend a law does not itself change the law’s meaning.

There is a simple remedy for the disparate treatment of bump stocks and machineguns. Congress can amend the law—and perhaps would have done so already if ATF had stuck with its earlier interpretation. Now that the situation is clear, Congress can act.

Raskin was blowing bong-smoke.

[Wingnut]

A LESSON IN THE RULE OF LAW

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/06/a-lesson-in-the-rule-of-law.php

Justice Thomas’ majority opinion (it was a 6-3 decision) patiently explains why a bump stock, while it might help a shooter to increase his rate of fire, does not “automatically” fire “more than one shot” “by a single function of the trigger.” A basic principle of the rule of law is that a statute means what it says, not what a liberal judge thinks it might better have said.

Justice Alito’s concurring opinion makes the point briefly:


Raskin was blowing bong-smoke.

And he drank the bong water.