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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

After the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people at a music festival, the NRA initially supported, but ultimately opposed regulations on bump stocks. Those regulations were eventually struck down by the Supreme Court.

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12/12

NRA says it opposes idea of banning transgender Americans from owning guns | CNN Politics

Amid reports the Justice Department is weighing banning transgender people from owning firearms in response to last month’s mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church, the National Rifle Association said Friday it will oppose any blanket rule that limits Second Amendment rights.

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

Powerful gun rights groups like the NRA have long objected to any sweeping restrictions on the Second Amendment of the Constitution, including during Donald Trump’s first administration.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

The idea of restricting gun rights has long been a red line for conservatives, with many Republican lawmakers and gun rights groups opposing red flag laws and other policies aimed at keeping guns away from people suffering from mental health issues.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

unconstitutionally target a minority group’s rights.

There is no evidence to suggest transgender people are more likely to commit mass attacks. Data does show, however, that transgender people are far more likely to be the victims of a violent crime.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

Though the internal talks are preliminary and a final rule is far from being implemented, the discussions were faced with an immediate public outcry – including from civil rights groups and gun advocacy groups who claim any such rule would be overly broad and
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

The post was captioned, “The Second Amendment isn’t up for debate.”

The NRA confirmed to CNN it was commenting on the Justice Department discussions.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

reported its lowest quarterly sales since January 2009, according to FactSet records. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process.”

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

“The NRA supports the Second Amendment rights of all law abiding Americans to purchase, possess and use firearms,” the organization said in a social media post.”NRA does not, and will not, support any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

rights.

Their declaration comes after CNN and other outlets reported that Justice Department leadership is considering whether it can use its rulemaking authority declare that people who are transgender are mentally ill and can lose their rights to possess firearms.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

Amid reports the Justice Department is weighing banning transgender people from owning firearms in response to last month’s mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church, the National Rifle Association said Friday it will oppose any blanket rule that limits Second Amendment
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 9h

I hate this timeline

NRA says it opposes idea of banning transgender Americans from owning guns
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

and teach, and how a weird little shrimp might – might! – just save us all.

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Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14h

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s war on higher education, the history of right-wing attacks on what universities research
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

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28/28

Supreme Court said ICE can stop you based on race, accent, job and location. What we know.

A group of Latino California residents and related organizations sued the government, saying they were being subject to illegal stops.

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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

“Plaintiffs have no good basis to believe that law enforcement will stop them in the future based on the prohibited factors — and certainly no good basis for believing that any stop of the plaintiffs is imminent,” Kavanaugh wrote.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

However, in his own opinion that only represented his view, Kavanaugh agreed with the Trump administration.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

The justices who sided with the Trump administration in the one-paragraph decision did not address this issue, so Americans don’t know if the justices sided with the administration based solely on this technicality.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

The administration wrote that the people’s allegations were “entirely speculative” and that they offered nothing to prove their premise that they could be stopped again by ICE.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

she wrote.

Legal technicalities could’ve played a role
The Trump administration argued that the people who sued them didn’t have the right to do so, an issue that can get a case thrown out.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

In a blistering dissent, Sotomayor, a liberal justice, called the decision a "grave misuse" of the court's emergency power. "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job,"
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

The Supreme Court’s limited decision, which came Sept. 8, lets ICE return to using the four criteria in the Los Angeles area, at least during the current stage in the legal process.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration appealed, and an appeals court agreed with the lower court. But the Trump administration then appealed to the Supreme Court for an emergency ruling, essentially saying law enforcement were being prohibited from doing their jobs.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

The court barred the administration from relying solely on the criteria to make stops in the Los Angeles area and required ICE to use a higher legal standard called "reasonable suspicion" to conduct stops.
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Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

A trial court in California called ICE's practices an officially sanctioned “pattern of conduct” and said that even though there was no evidence of an “official policy” for these four criteria, immigration agents were routinely using them to make stops.
18/28

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