EdDinIL

Well, you don't want to buy firearm insurance. How else is the state supposed to cover the cost of damages?

As the meme says, "They're the same picture."

ISRA sent out a tweet thread about it a few minutes ago. First tweet here. Threadreaderapp unroll link follows. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2010832019618742767.html

On January 5th, SCOTUS scheduled this for conference on Friday January 9th.

On January 5th, SCOTUS scheduled this for conference on Friday January 9th.

On January 5th, SCOTUS scheduled this for conference on Friday January 9th.

This would be true if there were injunctions that halted gun control measures like PICA until the courts fully heard them out (and, man, would THAT have sped things up), but several years of lost liberty is the only path forward for pro-2A people in Illinois.

It's the last act of "not going silently" that scares the crap out of everyone, probably even more so than going silently. That's why we're pinning our hopes on the third box of liberty, not the fourth one.

If it should be a total win in Chicago, why hasn't it happened yet? I won't pretend to understand everything about Chicago politics from my hazy, distant suburban viewpoint, but I haven't seen any indication anywhere (other than here) that Chicagoans would welcome voiding the FOID. Any attempt to push a bill through the House or Senate dies on the vine.

Brown v Board of Education was a 9-0 unanimous decision that was generally accepted by the population and yet it still had to be enforced at gunpoint by the National Guard in some locations. Even if we had a national conversation about guns, 2A rights will never get the same level of acceptance, and good luck getting the IL National Guard to enforce it.

I watched it when it came out, but forgot about it. Thanks for the refresher. Answers my question exactly. State wins, good team goes to SCOTUS. Good team wins, state goes en banc. Nevermind what he said about remand, I was just looking for the eventual way forward. Let's hope remand doesn't happen, though.

Someone with way more time, access, and data collating skills than me could probably come up with a general idea of how long it takes for 7CA to issue a ruling. My money is on "not until the current SCOTUS term ends". If the state wins, do we have to request an en banc hearing, or can it go straight to SCOTUS? I assume if we win, the state will request a stay and an en banc hearing as part of the slow-walk playbook.

Can those be handled administratively through rules changes or will those two things require an act (or acts) of Congress?

Source? It wasn't in the orders list this morning, which usually means it will be rescheduled for the next conference.