By: Anthony Morelli
Clarence Thomas made a brave decision to save the Second Amendment.
He stood in the way of a massive gun grab by the Biden administration.
Now Joe Biden is furious after what Clarence Thomas just did to thwart his agenda.
Although the current Supreme Court has a supposedly conservative majority, they have been unpredictable when it comes to Second Amendment issues.
On one hand, they were responsible for the historic Bruen decision, which invalidated laws in blue states that prevented law-abiding citizens from carrying guns in public places.
But on the other hand, they have washed their hands of certain gun cases that could have strengthened the Second Amendment even more.
Clarence Thomas, however, is one justice on the Supreme Court who has never wavered in his support for the right to keep and bear arms.
And even when there has been tremendous political pressure on him to fold, he has continued standing in the way of liberal politicians who want to grab guns.
That was the case again last month as the state of Missouri attempted to sue the Biden administration to block their oppressive gun laws.
The Court voted to reject their emergency request, unfortunately. But Clarence Thomas stood alone in favor of the state of Missouri – and gun owners nationwide.
According to Newsweek, “Clarence Thomas was the only member of the Supreme Court who was willing to block a lower court’s ruling that prevented the enforcement of a Missouri law limiting local authorities’ cooperation in enforcing federal gun laws.
“The Supreme Court rejected an emergency request from the state of Missouri to block a federal judge’s decision that federal gun laws supersede a state law aimed at limiting the enforcement of federal law.
“The court’s decision comes ahead of what could be a pivotal gun rights case, where the justices will be asked to rule on the constitutionality of a federal law that prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic abuse restraining orders.”
While this federal law sounds good on the surface, there is a huge problem with it – restraining orders are notoriously easy to get.
That means while undoubtedly some dangerous people who have restraining orders against them are prohibited from having guns, so are some innocent people who just went through a bad breakup, or some other unfortunate situation.
The article continues, “Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch agreed with the majority in refusing to grant Missouri’s request, but Gorsuch, in a brief opinion joined by Alito, suggested that state officials could still potentially be sued under the state’s law because those officials aren’t bound by the federal judge’s ruling.”
This is a disappointing decision by Gorsuch and Alito, who have routinely been the most conservative justices on the Supreme Court alongside Thomas.
And it’s sadly an unsurprising decision by Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and John Roberts, who have been incredibly flaky in their commitment to protecting the Constitution.
The Supreme Court may have made the wrong decision here, but it was not for lack of trying by Clarence Thomas.