Highlights: Late Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down a very brief order establishing that sellers of “ghost guns,” weapons that are sold dismantled in ready-to-assemble kits, must comply with the same gun safety laws and anti-crime laws as any other gun seller.
Judge Reed O’Connor, a former Republican Capitol Hill staffer known for handing down dubiously reasoned opinions that benefit Republican causes, effectively tried to neutralize the Supreme Court’s August 2023 decision.
While the Court’s August order was a 5-4 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the Court’s three Democratic appointees, no justice publicly dissented from the order handed down on Monday — which suggests that even the four justices who dissented in August may have viewed O’Connor’s most recent ruling in favor of ghost gun sellers as an act of defiance that needed to be quashed.
It’s frowned upon to editorialize titles. OP reused the title of the article, which is the correct thing to do.
It’s from Vox, an American media company. The URL starts with vox.com/scotus. You should expect American media companies to refer to the SCOTUS as simply “the Supreme Court.”
Just like if I were reading the CBC, I would expect the “Supreme Court” to refer to the Supreme Court of Canada.
SCOTUS acronym = Supreme Court Of The United States.
Why is it frowned upon? I agree the title shouldn’t change, but I would appreciate “[American] Supreme Court” instead of just guessing which country the title refers too: Behold!