How can you tell when a person isn’t suited for the job that they’re in? One clear way is when they do the exact opposite of what their job is.
Unfortunately, there are a number of justices in the court system in the U.S. that aren’t suited to be justices. They’re more concerned about making up policy than they are about evaluating whether someone broke a legitimate law in their jurisdiction.
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad and frustrating. It’s not funny, though. It’s frustrating and appalling.
And the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Illinois just revealed that they have justices on that court that have absolutely no business being there because they are trying to shape policy. Aldgra Fredly writes,
A federal appeals court on July 9 upheld Illinois’s ban on the sale and possession of “assault weapons” and large capacity magazines, overturning a lower court ruling that had blocked enforcement of the law.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act into law in January 2023 after a gunman killed seven people in a 2022 shooting during an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago. A federal judge overturned the law in 2024, finding it violated the Second Amendment right to bear arms, but the injunction was later stayed after the state appealed.
In a 2–1 decision on July 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit concluded that the state’s ban is “consistent with the principles that underpin our nation’s tradition of firearm regulation.”
“In short, legislatures have long imposed restrictions on particularly dangerous weapons, and the Act is but another chapter in that story,” the order stated.
To put it another way, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is saying that states have been trying for years to override the Constitution and ban firearms. This means that there is a “tradition” of gun control in those states, and those states can, therefore, ignore the Second Amendment.
I wish that I were making this up, but I’m not. It’s completely absurd.
Fortunately, there are already plans to appeal this decision (as there should be), and hopefully it will be overturned (as it should be).