frigidweirdo
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If that were true the original meaning and intent of the 2nd Amendment would have been restored by 74 and Roe would have been overturned and the abortion question sent back to the states.
There are probably at least a dozen other decisions that show that cannot be true.
Just because someone is appointed by a Republican President certainly doesn't mean that justice once seated won't become a flaming left wing activist on the bench.
Much greater care needs to be exercised by Republican Presidents in the future with respect to nominees and they should stick only with those with long records of decisions as a constructionist and textualist. If it isn't in there, it isn't in there. No, you don't get to change the wording as a justice of a law you do not like.
Well.... I'm sure you don't know what the "original meaning and intent of the 2nd Amendment" is.
I'll tell you. The right of individuals to own weapons = right to keep arms.
The right of individuals to be in the militia = right to bear arms.
There's more evidence in this document proving this is so, than there is evidence against this fact in the whole world. AND there's more evidence than this one document, quite a bit more, actually.
But no, the Supreme Court is not a place where Justices feel they can go out and make law. However they are changing things slowly, and the US has become far more conservative because of it.