Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
'Thank goodness. Also, Clarence Thomas is truly evil.'That's how one progressive pollster responded Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling in United States v. Rahimi, which upheld a law prohibiting individuals subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm.
Thomas wrote Friday that after Bruen, 'this court's directive was clear: A firearm regulation that falls within the Second Amendment's plain text is unconstitutional unless it is consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. Not a single historical regulation justifies the statute at issue.
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