And Scalia was asked, what's the difference between you and Justice Thomas? And he said, "Well, I am an originalist, but I am not a nut." Well, this ruling was written by Justice Thomas, and it was by far the most sweeping, the most extreme Second Amendment ruling in the country's history. But that case allowed gun regulation, allowed public safety laws. The Supreme Court never said that the Second Amendment reflected an individual right to gun ownership for self-protection. law that restricts concealed carrying of guns And I think that's a deliberate decision in some ways to try to dampen the public response to some pretty controversial rulings. But now we are able to hear the audio from the Court. Wade was overturned with a "send" button at the Court's website rather than in a hearing where somebody would be saying those words and the public would hear it.
But last year and, so far, this year they're just issuing PDFs on their website, so that Roe v. And it used to be the case throughout the whole history of the Court, that when there was a ruling, it would be read or summarized in person by the author, and sometimes there would be a dissent, a very passionate dissent read from the bench by one of the other justices. After the Dobbs leak and there were protests, they put up a big fence around the Court to keep people away. They didn't have oral arguments in person for a long time, but I think there was a building up of a mental fortress around the Court as well. They were girding themselves for what they knew were going to be really significant, really controversial and, in many ways, really extreme decisions. On SCOTUS decisions released online rather than publicly announced in personĮlections How a Supreme Court justice's paragraph put the Voting Rights Act in more danger It was all happening very much in public view. This year, the scorpions were crawling all over the table. It was once the case that somebody in an earlier era likened the Supreme Court justices to nine scorpions in a bottle. We learned about the activities of Justice Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, and her deep involvement in the efforts that ultimately led to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6 - and all of this was happening in public. Justice Clarence Thomas said basically this was a great place to work until John Roberts became chief justice. Wade, they started giving speeches attacking each other.
It was nonstop controversy, everything from the leak of the Dobbs opinion on Roe v.
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