The Next Supreme Court Gun Fight
This case has a lot more fatal ramifications than last term’s bumpstocks choice.
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Episode Notes
In this week’s Amicus, Mark Joseph Stern actions in for Dahlia Lithwick to sneak peek the upcoming Supreme Court term and dive into the high-stakes case of Garland v. VanDerStokThis important case analyzes the legality of ‘ghost weapons’– untraceable guns that can be put together in the house from packages purchased online. Stern talks with Eric Tirschwell, executive director and primary lawsuits counsel of Everytown Law, the lawsuits arm of Everytown for Gun Safety. Stern and Tirschwell go over the extensive public security ramifications of this case and the significant reduction in ghost gun-related criminal offenses following the Biden administration’s intro of the guideline at the heart of the case. They likewise discover the function of dark cash in financing claims intended at deteriorating weapon security laws, and how it compares to the anti-abortion legal methods of the Christian.
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