{"id":3651,"date":"2019-01-13T23:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2019-01-13T23:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T06:01:42","slug":"short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3651","title":{"rendered":"Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlawful alien, caught possessing a firearm, is charged with violating a federal law that categorically bars unlawful aliens from possessing firearms. Defense: That law violates the Second Amendment. <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2019\/01\/08\/15-10492.pdf\">Ninth Circuit<\/a>: We&#8217;re not sure whether the Second Amendment applies to unlawful aliens in the first place, but even if it does, this law passes muster. It&#8217;s sufficiently tailored to the government&#8217;s crime-control interests since unlawful aliens are subject to removal, are often hard to trace, and <strong>&#8220;have already shown they are unable or unwilling to conform their conduct to the laws of this country.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did Hell freeze over? The Ninth Circus got one right!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2019\/01\/11\/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federa\">Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlawful alien, caught possessing a firearm, is charged with violating a federal law that categorically bars unlawful aliens from possessing firearms. Defense: That law violates the Second Amendment. Ninth Circuit: We&#8217;re not sure whether the Second Amendment applies to unlawful aliens in the first place, but even if it does, this law passes muster. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,16,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2nd-amendment","category-crime","category-hostile-invaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}