Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights

Re:Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional R... by i_am_proteus on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:28AM (#20886969)

This line of reasoning concludes that the existence of a federal or state law implies its constitutionality.

Given that the system requires a law to be passed before a challenge in court, this reasoning is inherently fallacious, since if it were true, no law could be ruled unconstitutional.

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Re:Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional R... by rtkwe on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:52PM (#20890130)

Things like the NFA and other laws that come expressly into conflict with an unlimited interpretation of the second amendment have been challenged in court on constitutional grounds and those challenges have failed.

As far as the US system is concerned that means some forms of limits on the second amendment /are/ constitutional and the 2nd amendment is thus definitively not unlimited unless and until the court issues a ruling that contradicts the previous rulings.

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