Chris Murphy

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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

5/ In Kanter, Barrett said two things that made clear she intends to legislate from the bench. First, she said that courts, not the legislature, should decide who is too dangerous to own a gun. She said courts should take that power away from the legislature. Just mind-blowing. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ But it's not just her general philosophy - it's her stunning dissent in Kanter v. Barr. There, she broke with decades of precedent (and Scalia's decision in DC v. Heller) upholding the constitutionality of background checks, and argued that felons have a right to own guns. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ Second, she said that legislatures had to "prove" that the gun law they passed would reduce violence, and claimed Wisconsin hadn't provided that proof. Thus, Barrett said the restriction was unconstitutional. — PolitiTweet.org

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