August 04 2023:
Order issued by Justice Alito: Upon further consideration of the application of counsel for the applicants, the responses, and the reply filed thereto, it is ordered that the stay issued on July 28, 2023, is hereby extended until 5 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, August 8, 2023.
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I won't provide the link to it as there's no PDF or other document containing the order itself, only the docket minute entry quoted below. It's my humble opinion Alito is giving himself (and perhaps others on the court) more time to put together a final judgement on BATFE's stay application. There's also the amicus brief filed by a pile of states that want to ban and seize all guns plus another amicus brief from FRAC. As would be expected, BATFE filed a reply brief at the eleventh hour yesterday. SCOTUS isn't slapdash.
BATFE and Biden's minions are getting desperate. This one keeps spinning around in my head for poor Steve Dettelbach . . .
They contain increasingly wilder and groundless claims, including bogus statistics and fatally flawed studies.I hope SCOTUS has given the Biden administration just enough rope to hang itself.
These briefs they keep filing seem to be more and more desperate and more and more unconstitutional.
Democrats really don't seem to understand that the constitution of the US doesn't answer to "study says".They contain increasingly wilder and groundless claims, including bogus statistics and fatally flawed studies.
Molon Labe'I'm nervous about the delay/extension Alito issued. If for some reason this were to go the opposite direction than it appears to be going currently, it'll be open season on gun rights.
Don't worry about it. Alito would have had about 24 hours to address everything that's been filed and have it published and distributed by 5PM today. They simply don't work that fast. He needs several days to write something that will explain precisely what his ruling is. You don't get instant gratification from any court when it requires a written rationale. If it were a terse, two sentence ruling, you'd have Biden, Garland, Dettelbach, Schumer, and every other Democrat on Capitol Hill screeching about rogue SCOTUS justices issuing invalid decisions, demanding to impeach six of them, creating terms that expire to replace them all, and packing the court with 6 more justices (increasing it to 15), all so they can get what they want. The court has to use due diligence to show that it considered everything filed in gory detail before arriving at a decision and issuing an order. The pushback is going to be bad enough. You don't want to give the Biden and his minions any ammunition to use. Be patient. I'm surprised it was continued only until Tuesday at 5 PM. I'd expected it to be continued for a week.I'm nervous about the delay/extension Alito issued. If for some reason this were to go the opposite direction than it appears to be going currently, it'll be open season on gun rights.
No. While I'm dismayed, and deeply disappointed, don't read too much into SCOTUS granting the stay. It says more about procedural aspects of appeals than it does about what SCOTUS would do with a writ of certiorari and a decision. Nor does it signal any expectation of SCOTUS with the 5th Circuit.It's weird that scotus put a stay on the fed courts ruling while the appeal continues through the courts. If they disagreed with the intial fed court ruling (striking down the gov's rule/law re: ghost guns), wouldn't that strongly signal to the court hearing the appeal that scotus doesn't agree with striking down the gov's attempt to eliminate ghost guns?
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a request by President Joe Biden's administration to reinstate - at least for now - a federal regulation aimed at reining in privately made firearms called "ghost guns" that are difficult for law enforcement to trace.
Well how magnanimous of them.I guess a key point is that the ATF has promised not to prosecute any customer who is not a prohibited person while appeals are being considered.