As the primary and runoff election results yesterday made very clear, it’s open season on RINOs in Texas right now. Chief RINO Dade Phelan (current Texas House Speaker) was one of the few who survived. He squeaked by — a whopping 325 vote margin against a political newcomer, in a runoff where he spent more than any Texas house election in history — and was able to win only because his campaign got thousands of crossover Democrats to vote in the runoff (Texas has open primaries, and there’s no Dem candidate for that seat).

But given that virtually all of the RINO’s who were part of his cabal (which allies with the Dems to get into power) have been shown the door or read the room and didn’t run for re-election, he’s lost his juice and thus likely won’t be in the big chair next session. And Paxton has already issued a public warning to any GOP house member that signs a pledge card for Phelan: “you’re next.”

Cert grant in VanDerStok was over a month ago. Hardly breaking news.

Handwriting is already on the wall on this one. Feds asked for a stay of the judgment (which enjoined the enforcement of the ATF’s concocted “frame or receiver” rules). Stay was granted (which is typical in cases involving overturning a federal statute or regulation). What was unusual is that four justices voted NOT to grant a stay (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch Kavanaugh). So 4 votes to affirm are already there; just need to get Barrett on board.

Now, we are due for an opinion in the next month in Cargill (bump stock case; raised similar APA claims), as well as in Loper Bright (which may nuke Chevron deference, which is the keystone of the administrative law edifice that produces bureaucratic regs like this). So I will not be shocked if after those opinions come down and go our way as expected, VanDerStok may well have a reconsideration of the stay order, and may well just be summarily affirmed. We’ll see.

Yeah.. the court that gave us Bruen with the instructions for how the lower courts were to proceed in the future. Then the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th and 9th circuits essentially told them to fuck off and refused to implement their instructions. What has SCOTUS done to rein them in? Not a fucking thing. They’re nothing but a paper tiger.

“Don’t hold your breath waiting for a pro 2A decision out of THIS court.”

This is the same Court that recently gave us ‘Bruen’, where it was ruled the 2-step approach was 1-step to many, and shall-issue carry was to be nation-wide, whether NY state and California liked it or not.

Is that the same Court you’re talking about that’s shy about the 2A?

Let’s see what happens in a few weeks when Loper-Bright gets decided and government over-reach gets bitch-slapped into next week. Thomas has made it clear he wants to check the power of the ‘deep state’… 😉

“Tar and feathers.”

Hot tar and stinky feathers… 😉

WELL, DUH! You fuggin retard. You don’t negotiate with terrorists, you fool.

He knows exactly what he did. He’s a geriatric Fudd at best and a rich, privileged elitist who hates his constituents at worst.

The mea culpa act is part of the humiliation ritual people like him get off on. Everybody who may think “aww, they suckered this defender of liberty who was just acting in good faith” is a solid ejaculatory orgasm for demons like him.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for a pro 2A decision out of THIS court. The only 2A cases getting cert are the ones being brought by the government.