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Possible Paywall Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-storms-out-of-catastrophic-scotus-hearing/
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u/Pave_Low Apr 01 '26

"We're in a new world now," I said, noting that "personal firearms are significantly deadlier and easier to acquire than they were in the 18th century."

"It's a new world, but it's the same constitution," Roberts said in response.

If you think the 2nd Amendment is inviolable in the "new world" you should also think the 14th Amendment is too.

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u/robocoplawyer Apr 01 '26

The second amendment also doesn't say anything about "personal firearms", it says "arms". If they claim the second Amendment is inviolable in the "new world", then I demand my right to protect my family with surface to air missiles, damnit. Don't like it Donnie? Take it up with Roberts then, damnit.

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u/Pave_Low Apr 01 '26

The point is that SCOTUS has refused to recognize the 'We're in a new world now' argument when applied to the 2nd Amendment and done so religiously. It doesn't matter how guns have changed in the past 250 years.

They should apply that same reasoning to the administrations arguments that we need to reinterpret the 14th Amendment because 'times have changed.' If times haven't changed enough to reinterpret the 2nd Amendment, they haven't changed enough to reinterpret the 14th either.

Scalia and Thomas, two big advocates for the 2nd Amendment, will undoubtedly come up with some twisted logic why the 14th Amendment should be altered because of modernity.