Court's bump stock ruling reflects its MAGA direction

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By Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg Opinion

Imagine a fictional Supreme Court, circa 1970, in which the court’s left-wing majority is sympathetic to the ways and means of violent leftist insurgents attacking government and academic institutions and seeking a cultural revolution and the overthrow of the republic.

Fictional Democratic political elites, meanwhile, have called leftists imprisoned for violent crimes “patriots” and “political prisoners.” In a ruling on the legality of Molotov cocktails, the court majority concludes that there is nothing illegal about gasoline, bottles, rags or matches. So, hey, the cocktails must be cool.

Last week, Justice Clarence Thomas, in a 6-3 opinion for the court, declared the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had exceeded its authority when it implemented a Trump administration ban on bump stocks, the devices that enable semi-automatic rifles to fire rounds at the accelerated pace of a machine gun. Machine guns have been illegal in the U.S. since 1934.

The bump stock ruling was predictable, dull and rich with incipient violence. Thomas adhered to the conservative preference for textualism, resorting to his dictionary to explain why a ban on machine guns does not apply to a device that renders copycat machine guns.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-courts-bump-stock-ruling-reflects-its-maga-direction/

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1. Only one person's agenda to reduce the U.S. to mob rule benefits.

Everything the GOP, Maga and Orange Julius say and do benefits one person.
Their Lord and Master.
Think about it.
He can't destroy it from outside, so he gets his cronies to destroy it from inside.