A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.

  • Dee@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    What happened to respecting states rights? So sick of the judicial branch in the US, the most untethered and corrupt branch of them all. Which is saying a lot considering the state of the legislative branch.

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      Republicans only care about state’s rights when they can use state law to push one of their terrible policies at state level because they can’t force it nationally.

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      Republicans want all power consolidated at the level they can most effectively control. They were only ever about “states’ rights” because they typically are better at capturing state governments than national institutions.

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      States’ rights only exists in the eyes of Conservatives if it’s related to owning other humans.

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      1 year ago

      Republicans have no political platform, but they do have a judicial agenda.