World class trolling

I suspect Justice Thomas has had this teed up for many years and got a great deal of pleasure whacking the opposition in the face with it today:

Even before the Civil War commenced in 1861, this Court indirectly affirmed the importance of the right to keep and bear arms in public. Writing for the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857), Chief Justice Taney offered what he thought was a parade of horribles that would result from recognizing that free blacks were citizens of the United States. If blacks were citizens, Taney fretted, they would be entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, including the right “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.” Id., at 417 (emphasis added). Thus, even Chief Justice Taney recognized (albeit unenthusiastically in the case of blacks) that public carry was a component of the right to keep and bear arms—a right free blacks were often denied in antebellum America. After the Civil War, of course, the exercise of this fundamental right by freed slaves was systematically thwarted. This Court has already recounted some of the Southern abuses violating blacks’ right to keep and bear arms. See McDonald, 561 U. S., at 771 (noting the “systematic efforts”

Thomas goes on at length with sections such as:

The reports described how blacks used publicly carried weapons to defend themselves and their communities. For example, the Bureau reported that a teacher from a Freedmen’s school in Maryland had written to say that, because of attacks on the school, “[b]oth the mayor and sheriff have warned the colored people to go armed to school, (which they do,)” and that the “[t]he superintendent of schools came down and brought [the teacher] a revolver” for his protection. Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., 658 (1866); see also H. R. Exec. Doc. No. 68, 39th Cong., 2d Sess., 91 (1867) (noting how, during the New Orleans riots, blacks under attack “defended themselves . . . with such pistols as they had”).:

Via LongWay001.

In other news, Mike B. and I exchanged some text messages this afternoon:

Mike: We need to start renaming streets, “Clarence Thomas Blvd.”.
QOTD candidate by Mike’s wife.

Joe: Smile
Hmmmmm… How about renaming NYC “Clarence Thomas City”?

Mike: Honoring the black man

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3 thoughts on “World class trolling

  1. Yes, that is indeed world-class trolling. A black justice bringing up Dred Scott in a modern gun case…..

    It also likely means that the mag-limit laws will be struck down across the board in the not to distant future. It’s almost a shoo-in for the next term, with the 5th and 9th being split, with nearly identical laws and same arbitrary number.

  2. Accepting your enemy’s moral framing is basically accepting their victory. This being considered a zinger rather than groveling is a sad reflection of the state of the American empire.

  3. CT city. Perfect!
    His bringing up Dred Scott was trolling at it’s finest. I stand humbled before greatness. To Funny!
    When it comes to decisions. This one is a communist’s migraine. And just told the majority of Americans,(gun owning public), that we were right all along.
    And since the commies set the precedence of ignoring laws you don’t like. (So can we). They have wedged their king in the corner for the rest of this chess game.
    And after overturning Roe vs. Wade.
    Looks like Trump and Montezuma have something in common, Revenge!

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