The plaintiffs have said the tax violates a Washington law that bans cities from regulating firearms, reserving that authority for the state. Seattle claims the tax is legal because taxation is different from regulation. [More]Who's regulatin'? We're taxin'.
Right, Jojo?
And all the Supreme Court has to do to let judicial activism trump preemption laws is... nothing.
[Via Jess]
They're laughing up their black robe sleeves at us, with their devious, semantic gymnastics. That mentality is epitomized in the shit-eating grin of Chief Justice Roberts, who infamously up and decided that the fine for not complying with Obamacare was merely a tax (insert Roberts' shit-eating grin).
ReplyDeleteHey, this is a venerable legal precedent, going all the way back to NFA 34. An tax isn’t an infringement or a regulation, or a ban, even if the amount is unreasonable. If you expect relief on this point from the Feds, you aren’t going to get it. They’re in it up to their eyebrows.
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