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Editorial: Supreme Court may allow more guns on street
Los Angeles Times
In a development that gun control advocates have been fearing, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case that could establish a Second Amendment right to carry a handgun in public, endangering laws in California and elsewhere that allow local and state governments to limit gun-carrying permits to people who establish a specific self-defense concern.
It is the first time in more than a decade that the court has agreed to consider a case arising from disputes over fundamental interpretations of the Second Amendment, a delay that court observers interpreted as a signal that the four most conservative members did not have a fifth vote to expand Second Amendment rights.
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Capping off a month that has already featured more than 40 mass shootings across the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a National Rifle Association-backed challenge to a New York state gun control lawâtriggering new calls for Democrats to urgently expand the court.
Slate staff writer Mark Joseph Stern, who covers courts and the law, pointed out in a series of tweets Monday that this case is likely to pave the way to the Supreme Court declaring a constitutional right to concealed public carry, overriding many state and local restrictions on the ability to bear concealed arms in public.
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Update (4/26/21 4 p.m.): This piece has been updated, to include Fox News anchor John Roberts on-air correction Monday.
After a right-wing British news site introduced a blatant lie about President Joe Biden s green-energy and infrastructure proposals â fraudulently suggesting that the administration is attempting to limit people to having one hamburger a month â Fox News then stepped up as the venue to amplify it into a much wider and frankly embarrassing discourse with its American audience.
In doing so, the network s purported news -side personalities are just as guilty as the officially billed opinion hosts, who have all contributed to this fake story now being spread by high-level Republican politicians. For one, the Biden administration does not have a specific plan yet âbut rather an outline of goals to reduce emissions, with a focus on transitioning to clean-energy infrastructure. There is nothing about mandating a virtual