Justice Thomas asks a simple question and makes lawyers squirm.

[Volphin]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/29/justice-thomas-asks-questions-in-court-1st-time-in-10-years.html?intcmp=hpbt1

 

 

I see where he is going with his question.  

[bersaguy]

I guess he feels he has to since his friend is no longer setting beside him. I'm glad that he has decided to speak out. You can bet the other Members of the court may not be.............jmho

[Randall53]

I wish he had asked "Could these people not use a hammer, knife or ball bat and murder someone? Are these methods of murder less or more violent than a firearm?"

[JAB]

The article linked in the OP stated that Justice Thomas asked if violation of any other law suspends a Constitutional right.  An article I read earlier today stated that he asked if there were any, other instances where committing a misdemeanor resulted in suspension of a Constitutional right. 

[btq96r]

Well, if you're a Justice on the Supreme Court, and you're going to ask the first question you've asked in ten years...at least make it a good one.  He did what Judges should do, question the logic of a practice and made the lawyer for the government provide justification for it.  He's also letting the Heller & McDonald decisions make their way into other case law, which I like.

 

That said, I'm not ready to get into these guys corner on this one. There is the whole element of these two guys hit a woman and are trying to pass it off as "heat of the moment," and even passively laying the blame for their domestic violence incidents due to alcohol, which I find a piss poor excuse, and even worse in some ways.

 

Still, Justice Thomas was asking a valid question.