Orders of the Court: January 27th - No movement on Maryland AWB (24-203) or RI Mag Ban (24-131)
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/012725zor_bp7c.pdf
Well what does this mean?
We get to wait more. It more than likely means that SCOTUS will not take the case this term. That's not a hard and fast rule, but the longer the wait, the more likely it gets pushed out to next term.
This will be the 3rd relisting whenever it next goes to conference. Generally speaking the more relists after 2, the less likely they take it. HOWEVER, NYSRPA v. Bruen was relisted 4 times. Dobbs v. Jackson was relisted TWELVE times.
That we did not get a denial is good. That we did not get a cert grant is bad. Nothing has happened.
So is this literally the end of the 2A like some asshole youtube clickbaiter says every time nothing happens in order to farm clicks and views?!?
No.
Again, the waiting fucking sucks. This is obnoxious. It's clear that SCOTUS needs to settle AWBs and Mag Bans. Ban states are not faithfully applying Bruen, and "Salt Weapons" and Standard Capacity mags are in lawful common use according to Heller, incorporated against the states according to Macdonald, Prima Facie covered by the 2A under Caetano, and there is no history or textual analog to ban them under Bruen or Rahimi.
I get it, I am pissed off about these delays. But there is literally fuck all nothing we can do about it. SCOTUS cert is a black box. The cases go in, we can do nothing but wait until they come out.
They have thus far not been rescheduled. I'll update this when/if there is movement on those dockets.