"A British newspaper said that a Chinese cosmetics company was using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe."
And remember, if you commit a felony in China--say, bringing in an unauthorized shipment of Bibles or the like, "conservative" justices Scalia and Thomas think your Second Amendment-recognized right should be terminated in the US.
[Story found via Hellblazer.]
Scalia and Thomas chose to interpret the law saying conviction in a court of a felony to mean exactly that. The problem is in the original law, not in their interpretation. I would prefer that the felony=loss of gun rights law be overturned, but correcting congressional sloppiness by judicial activism is no long term answer.
ReplyDeleteThomas and Scalia did the wrong thing for the right reason. The majority did the right thing for the wrong reason.
Paul, I've heard that explanation before.
ReplyDeleteWhere in the Constitution has Congress been delegated anything to say at all about foreign courts?
If the SC must blindly rubber stamp blatantly unconstitutional edicts, how is it that the famous "checks and balances" we all learned about can ever come into play?
Do you believe that the SC should have found the whole "felony conviction -> loss of firearms rights" to be unconstitutional.
ReplyDeleteI could live with that. Violent but non-incarcerated (either freed or paroled) felons can easily obtain firearms, and to pretend otherwise is to put innocent citizens at risk.
I could live with that.