Thread by @2Aupdates

Brady's Chief Counsel in the call audio: "Americans may wake up to a nation in which white supremacist gangs and boogaloo boys can walk the streets with arsenals of loaded AR-15s and no one can stop them." d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20200925/2e/62…

https://twitter.com/2Aupdates/status/1309580003076706311

"The framers of our constitution would be shocked to learn the 2nd Amendment they wrote to ensure people could have muskets for use in armies to protect the states would be interpreted to entitle private citizens to arm themselves with military-style weapons...

...to disrupt order, intimidate protestors, and attack and kill innocent people. The constitution protects American's right to live, not an unbridled right to private arsenals."

Managing Director for Everytown Law: "If the Supreme Court were to adopt a new and extreme interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, it would open the door to a flurry of challenges to a wide range of lifesaving gun laws...

...And there are a number of cases that the court could take up that, while certainly narrow in scope, could conceivably lead to such a broad ruling."

Litigation director at Giffords Law: "If Justice Ginsburg's seat is filled by a judge in the mold of the 2nd Amendment absolutists Trump favors and has previously appointed, the balance on the court will fundamentally shift."

Litigation director at Giffords Law specifically mentions Young v Hawaii, Duncan v Becerra, ANJRPC v Grewal, Zoie v Nebraska (without naming it), lawsuits against under-21 bans, and Rhode v Becerra as the ones they're worried about.

Litigation director at Giffords Law: "...it didn't take long for the NRA's bet on Judge Barrett to pay off. She wrote a dissent where she makes it clear she thinks some people convicted of felonies should be allowed to keep guns."

Litigation director at Giffords Law: "Should another of Trump's NRA-approved choices be confirmed to our highest court, it will put gun safety laws in jeopardy and embolden 2nd Amendment extremists for decades to come."

First question is from @johnkruzel: Asks about the two cases going to conference on Tuesday. Asks what they think the chances are for the court taking either one, and how the court's "gatekeeping function" at the cert stage will change for 2A cases.

Answer from Brady: "I'm loath to predict" which case, if any, the court will take. "I think we have all felt that it was likely that the court was gonna take another 2nd Amendment case very soon, and if this opening's filled by a Trump nominee, I think it will be even sooner."

Answer from Giffords: Doesn't think anything has changed from the spring when the other cases were denied, thinks the court will either deny the two cases about to go to conference or hold them until a new justice is confirmed.

That was the only question so the call ended 🤨