The US Supreme Court docket introduced Tuesday that a number of Illinois circumstances looking for a writ of certiorari to the court docket have been distributed to members of the court docket for a Might sixteenth convention. That is the primary signal that the members of the court docket may take motion to treatment a authorized rebellion happening on the seventh Circuit Court docket of Appeals.
Final fall, a three-judge panel of the federal Seventh Circuit Court docket of Appeals voted 2-1 to disregard the Heller and Bruen SCOTUS selections. The panel held that Land of Lincoln’s gun and journal ban is probably going constitutional beneath a brand new “kissin’ cousins” check they dreamed up. What’s the “Kissin’ Cousins” check? In so many phrases, if it seems like a gun the navy makes use of then it may be regulated or banned.
The Middle Sq. has the story:
Circumstances difficult gun and journal bans, together with a number of lawsuits from Illinois, have been distributed for an upcoming convention of the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
After Illinois banned greater than 170 semi-automatic firearms and magazines over sure capacities in January 2023, federal lawsuits had been filed. Appeals of separate preliminary actions in opposition to the regulation had been shot down by the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court docket of Appeals final 12 months. Plaintiffs in February requested the U.S. Supreme Court docket to intervene.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court docket moved a number of Illinois circumstances, and one difficult Maryland’s ban, to convention for Might 16, 2024.
“It’s very important as a result of we’ve been making an attempt very onerous to get a case to the Supreme Court docket coping with these points and I feel now we’re going to get there,” the Second Modification Basis’s Alan Gottlieb informed The Middle Sq..
Gottlieb expects if the court docket does take the circumstances, they are going to be consolidated.
“The tip of the month is sensible to seek out out,” he stated. “And, it could occur in June.”
As the chief director of Weapons Save Life, one of many plaintiffs difficult Illinois’ so-called “Shield Illinois Communities Act” gun and journal ban, I couldn’t be extra delighted. In need of having our writ of certiorari accepted and positioned on the calendar, that is the subsequent smartest thing. It actually beats having our appeals turned away!
