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Boston Globe
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Supreme Court ghost busters
But this is a court that has expressed 'I put out on a counter some eggs, some chopped up ham, some chopped up pepper, and onions. Is that a Western omelet?' Advertisement Luckily the seven justices in the majority, in an opinion penned by President Trump appointee Justice Neil Gorsuch, thought Alito's point wasn't all it was cracked up to be. (Sorry.) The court held that the ATF's regulation on ghost guns, on its face, is not inconsistent with the Gun Control Act of 1968. It left open the possibility for future challenges to the regulation as it applies to specific products. But the rule, as enacted by the ATF, need not be struck down as applied to all ghost guns. I agree with the Constitutional Accountability Center's senior appellate counsel Miriam Becker-Cohen, who filed an amicus brief in the case, when she called the court's opinion a 'cogent and straightforward analysis.' But Justices Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented in the case, claiming among other things that the ruling puts the justices in the shoes of regulators and makes new rules that gun manufacturers could not have anticipated. Advertisement Justice Sonia Sotomayor addressed those dissents in a separate concurrence. 'For more than half a century, firearms dealers, manufacturers, and importers have complied with the Gun Control Act's requirements,' Sotomayor wrote. 'They have marked their products with serial numbers, kept records of firearm sales, and conducted background checks for prospective buyers.' 'What is new,' Sotomayor continued, 'is that some manufacturers have sought to circumvent the Act's requirements by selling easy-to-assemble firearm kits and frames, which they claim fall outside the statute's scope.' In short, any confusion was caused by manufacturers' attempts to circumvent the rules, not by the court's decision clarifying them, Sotomayor deduced. I think her assessment is This is an excerpt from , a newsletter about the Supreme Court from columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a columnist for the Globe. She may be reached at
Bloomberg
08-03-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
President Trump Takes Credit for February Job Gains
"Balance of Power" focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. On today's show, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of the Heritage Foundation Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, shares her thoughts on what disturbances she's bracing for in the US economy. Elizabeth Wydra, Constitutional Accountability Center President, talks about President Trump going on record saying Elon Musk is the head of DOGE and the potential legal ramifications of the President's comment. Melinda Haring, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, discusses the US & Ukraine set to talk next week and what to expect from these conversations. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Could Trump Saying Musk Heads DOGE Create Legal Issue?
Elizabeth Wydra, Constitutional Accountability Center President, discusses and goes into further detail on the US Supreme Court rejecting the Trump Administration's efforts to not pay a few billion dollars of work already done by the USAID. She also talks about President Trump going on record saying Elon Musk is the head of DOGE and the potential legal ramifications of the President's comment. Elizabeth speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg's "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)
