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Advisory Opinions

Rahimi Is Here and It Is Glorious

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court has decided 8-1 in favor of the government in United States v. Rahimi. Sarah and David break down the decision before getting to a few sleeper cases from the day.The Agenda: —“Y’all misunderstood Bruen” —History is instructive, not binding —18th-century policy vs. 21st-century problems —The future of gun control —“Bad man stays in jail” doctrine —Trump’s SCOTUS nominees in a second term —“SCOTUS should have never taken Rahimi” —Sleeper cases Show Notes: —Sarah’s “bad man stays in jail” tweet —Chris Hayes’ tweet Advisory Opinions is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including Sarah’s Collision newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready. Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French and we've got Rahimi David.

0:25.0

We have Rahimi. We have Rahimi and I missed it earlier because I was looking at the court and I saw all of the earlier cases which were not as exciting as

0:35.5

Rahimi and then I thought well we're done because I saw that R number come up

0:39.6

that that indicates you're done and I just missed Rahheimi. I just didn't see it. But it was there and it was glorious.

0:46.2

So I can't wait to talk about it. So we'll talk about the other cases as well and just run through them.

0:51.4

One of them turned out to be a case that we did not

0:53.9

talk about after the oral argument and is kind of a sleeper important decision as it turned

0:59.3

out. That's the Munoz case so we'll get to that. All right, Rahimi 8-1 with Justice Thomas as the lone

1:07.6

dissenter, the Chief Justice writing the opinion. And for those just tuning into

1:12.1

advisory opinions,

1:13.6

Rahimi is a case about the Second Amendment, about guns.

1:17.4

It's sort of the follow-on in a lot of ways

1:19.4

to be lineage of Heller, individual right to bear arms.

1:24.2

McDonald, it incorporates the Second Amendment

1:27.1

against the states.

1:28.4

Bruin, you have an individual right

1:31.3

to bear those arms.

1:33.4

That was about May issue licenses versus shall issue licenses

1:38.2

striking down New York's May issue.

1:40.4

And that's where the text history and tradition thing really came up.

1:44.3

And that takes us to Rahimi.

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