is already making her presence felt on the Supreme Court and may soon play a decisive role in expanding gun rights. The case involves, who has argued that a federal law prohibiting her from buying a gun because of a felony conviction for tax evasion is a violation of her Second Amendment rights, according to the
. Her challenge was rejected by a three-judge panel in the Philadelphia court of appeals, keeping in line with the position of the current Justice Department.told the appeals court that “the right to keep and bear arms is analogous to other civic rights that have historically been subject to forfeiture by individuals convicted of crimes, including the right to vote, the right to serve on a jury and the right to hold public office.
If the case appears before the Supreme Court, it's likely that Barrett, along with the court’s four most conservative justices, will side with Folajtar. In 2017, Justiceswrote that they had detected “a distressing trend: the treatment of the Second Amendment as a disfavored right,” according to the
USSC is now a literal joke.
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