The court's 6-3 conservative majority has expanded gun rights but has also shown a reluctance in recent months to take up new cases on the scope of the right to bear arms.
Sometimes it’s just to let the various lower courts litigate every angle first, and other times it’s because they are waiting for a more perfect case. It’s very easy to make bad case law as SCOTUS, so they decline to hear even obvious cases on the regular.
Sometimes it’s just to let the various lower courts litigate every angle first, and other times it’s because they are waiting for a more perfect case. It’s very easy to make bad case law as SCOTUS, so they decline to hear even obvious cases on the regular.