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through the senate. we have fox team coverage with alexandria hoff and lucas tomlinson. reporter: the framework is significant in its own right coming to the point in agreement that has not been reached in decades. a statement from the group reads this, quote, our plan increases mental health resources, improves health safety and support for students and helps ensure dangerous criminals those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can t purchase weapons most importantly plans to save lives while protecting constitutional rights of law abiding citizens. it has billions more for mental health and school safety and expanded background checks for gun purchasers under the age of 21. the bipartisan group was led by senator chris murphy and john cornyn, ten republicans in total signed onto this agreement meaning as it s written now it has the ten needed to advance in the senatement on the senate majority leader chuck schumer added this, once the text of this agreement is finalized, i w
misconceived. explain why. it is miss conceived. it is pretty new. it wasn t until last year the supreme court said this is how we re going to make our big rulings. the only way to interpret the constitution is ask what did it mean at the time it was ratified to the founders. the court rules that the meaning of the constitution is, quote, fixed, in a very rural way what this means is that the social views, the moreays of property owning wight men from late 1700s or the 1800s has to govern us now and that is whatever the justices think they could find to bolster their argument. sometimes it is terrifying, in the dobbs case they actually cited in the opinion, justice alito, six times a judge named matthew hail who is a british judge who sentenced women to death in the witchcraft. in the 1500s, not last year. and the founders understood that they were creating a broad
the heller decision. but it still leave room for gun laws even though it was seen as an individual right. and justice scalia was asked what is the difference between you and justice thomas and he said i m an originalist, but i m not a nut. justice thomas wrote the opinion, the brewing case, and that case, one of the really extraordinary decisions at the end of the last term in june of 2022, basically said you could not consider public safety when you re looking at whether a gun safety law is constitution. you can only look at history and tradition by which they mean some law from the colonial era or from the founding era. if they had that law then, then maybe we could have it now. and this is an unusual way to rule. and this originalism and original intent and you say in the book it is fundamentally
backlash, a political backlash that we re living with to this day. so what you re describing at this moment, it does seem to be accurate that the court is doing things that the public in general, majorities of the public are not comfortable with on abortion. even on guns which you ve written a wonderful book about this the second amendment. most people don t realize that the second amendment did not prevent 200 years of gun regulation or maybe at least a hundred, suddenly going back to the 1850s. and that it was a series of decisions really starting with peller, scalia s opinion that completely transformed the legal landscape for guns, right? you re exactly right. it is sort of hard to imagine, but the supreme court never said the second amendment protects an individual right to gun ownership until 2008, that is