https://amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/24/gorsuch-liberals-gun-crimes?__twitter_impression=trueI don't have a problem with this one. If someone commits violence with a weapon, that is bad enough. Guns shouldn't be singled out from other weapons. Plus I figure these sorts of violations are usually under state law and the feds should stay out of that for the most part.
Justice Neil Gorsuch joined with the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc to deal victory for criminal defendants Monday, striking down a federal law that punishes gun crimes as unconstitutionally vague.
The law at issue authorizes heightened penalties for individuals who use firearms to a commit a “crime of violence.” In dissent, Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned the decision would undermine public safety.
Reading this quote below, I don't have a problem with this.
“Only the people’s elected representatives in Congress have the power to write new federal criminal laws,” Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion. “And when Congress exercises that power, it has to write statutes that give ordinary people fair warning about what the law demands of them.”
“Vague laws transgress both of those constitutional requirements,” Gorsuch added. “They hand off the legislature’s responsibility for defining criminal behavior to unelected prosecutors and judges, and they leave people with no sure way to know what consequences will attach to their conduct.”
Plus I like the precedent of striking down vague laws. I hope it carries over to other stuff, but I doubt it will for the liberal judges.
There are some quotes from Kavanaugh in the second half who was in the dissent.
