yet, they don t do it. the democrats don t do it. instead, guns are being sold at gun shows that are called literally cop callers and look out of a space movie. yeah. that made all the difference in uvalde. over memorial day weekend, 51 people shot in chicago over the long weekend. nine of them were killed. let s turn back now to the federal jury investigation that found homer hillary clinton attorney michel sussmann not guilty. it was pat of the origin of the trump-russia investigation. the case centered around the 2016 meeting with top fbi lawyer james baker where sussmann passed along data he believe indicated a communications back channel between the trump campaign and a russian bank. prosecutors accused sussmann of misrepresenting himself in the meeting. telling baker has weigh passing
for those who would like to deflect responsibility. either for their policy choice to oppose or the failure of legislators and citizens that the proposal should be enacted. john, let s take a step back here, since you re on the inside of this debate. this ruling and decision. what does heller say actually and what does it not say? as you say, it s been held up by so many people in so many gun cases in the decades since. sure. and thanks for having me on. heller was pretty narrow on what it actually held. it held only that the government can t deprive citizens of a handgun in the home. basically, you have a second amendment, individual right, to have a handgun to defend your family. there s a case pending right now in the supreme court that will be decided in the next month or so, about whether that extends outside the home. kate my co-author and i disagree on that. i think it should be extended
important majority opinions during his 32 years on the court, but he has spoken out against roe v. wade. now if this draft opinion becomes law, his view will be vindicated. in gun rights, when thomas joined the court in 1991, the court had never held that there was an individual right to bear arms under the second amendment. he started writing dissenting opinions in the late 90s, saying there is an individual right to bear arms. and in 2008, justice scalia s famous opinion for the court in the heller case said there is an individual right and this term, it s very likely that they re going to expand the syringe right, contract the right of states to pass gun laws. church and state issues. thomas has been very outspoken, that the so-called wall of separation between church and state is should be torn down.
one r two things. senator coons suggested that in three cases, nickerson, nguyen and fife, you actually imposed sentences within the guidelines or at the same level of the prosecution but in nickerson, you didn t have any discretion. that was an 11 c 1 c case and nguyen wasn t a child porn case and neither was fife. just one other quick thing to clarify. as to this comments about the probation office, the probation office doesn t issue national guidelines, right? i mean, the probation office doesn t issue sentencing guidelines. they re not public. they re not recommended to all judges. the probation office provides advice to judges, case-by-case, usually in private, usually not available to the public, is that right, judge? not exactly, senator. the probation office in criminal cases is assigned by the court to work with respect to the evaluation of cases.
interpretation to assess what it is that the parties, the parties who wrote the text intended. as a result, because my methodology involves these various pieces and because of the way in which i do things, i m reluctant to establish or to adopt a particular label because the idea of how you interpret is just one part of the entirety of a judge s responsibility. as i mentioned, you know, i m looking at the facts in a case. and my experience as a trial judge helps me to assess the facts from all of the different perspectives of the parties because i m able to do that, i think, having heard from parties in all sorts of cases directly as they present their arguments. that s a part of the judging