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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A U.S. judge’s ruling striking down a federal law that bans licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 is the latest example of how a landmark Supreme Court decision is transforming the legal landscape around firearms.
The ruling issued Wednesday by a federal judge in Virginia is just the beginning of what’s likely to be a lengthy court battle over rules aimed at making it harder for 18- to 20-year-olds to get handguns.
The judge’s ruling doesn’t go into effect until he issues a final order that would bar the government from enforcing the age limit. The Justice Department didn’t immediately comment on the ruling but is likely to appeal and could ask for the final order to be put on hold while it does.
The judge cited the Supreme Court’s June decision in a case called Bruen, which changed the test that courts had long used to evaluate gun laws. The ruling has opened the door to a wave of challenges from gun-rights activists and created turmoil in the courts as judges wrestle over what gun restrictions can remain on the books.
Here’s a look at the Virginia’s judge’s ruling, the impact of the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision and what’s next:
WHAT DID THE SUPREME COURT’S BRUEN DECISION DO?
In its Bruen decision, the Supreme Court struck down a New York gun law and ruled that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. The majority opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas also set new standards for courts to weigh challenges to firearm restrictions.
Before the ruling, courts generally took a two-step approach when examining guns, first looking at the constitutional text and history to see whether a regulation comes under the Second Amendment and then, if it does, looking at the government’s justification for the restriction.
Thomas said the old standard was wrong and said courts should no longer consider whether the law serves public interests, like enhancing public safety. Governments that want to uphold a gun restriction must point to similar restrictions from history to show that the law is consistent with the country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation,” the Supreme Court said.
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE VIRGINIA CASE?
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Payne in Richmond said the government failed to prove that restrictions on the purchase of firearms by 18- to 20-year-olds is “part of our Nation’s history and tradition.” The former President George H.W. Bush-appointee said the government didn’t present any evidence of such restrictions “from the colonial era, Founding or Early Republic.”
The lack of similar regulations from those time periods indicates that the “Founders considered age-based regulations on the purchase of firearms to circumscribe the right to keep and bear arms confirmed by the Second Amendment,” he wrote.
The case was brought by 20-year-old John Corey Fraser and other young adults who want to buy handguns from a licensed federal firearms dealer. Fraser’s lawyer, Elliott Harding, noted that 18- to 20-year-olds can already buy handguns from private sellers, a process that is “completely unregulated.”
They challenged the constitutionality of the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the associated regulations from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Gun control groups had urged the court to uphold the age restrictions, arguing they are constitutional even under the Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling. They say Payne’s ruling will put lives at risk, pointing to scientific literature that shows the brain continues to develop in the early 20s and that 18- to 20-year-olds are more impulsive than older adults.
“There is a long, established historical pedigree for recognizing the risk posed by certain subsets of armed individuals,” The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and another gun control group, Brady, wrote in court filings. “Likewise, Congress has identified that armed 18-to-20-year-olds pose a greater risk to the community than does the rest of the population and accordingly has restricted 18-to-20-year-olds’ ability to purchase handguns.”
WHAT OTHER LAWS ARE BEING CHALLENGED POST-BRUEN?
Gun-rights activists have been waging court battles across the U.S. over things such as bans on the sale of on AR-15-style rifles and high-capacity magazines and possession of so-called “ghost guns” that can be nearly impossible for law enforcement officials to trace.
In some cases, judges looking at the same laws and same historical record have come down on different sides on whether they are constitutional under the Supreme Court’s Bruen test. Several judges, for example, have upheld a federal law banning people under indictment for felonies from buying guns, while others have declared it unconstitutional.
A federal judge recently cited the high court decision in ruling against a Minnesota law prohibiting 18- to 20-year-olds from getting permits to carry handguns in public. A judge struck down a similar law last year on gun restrictions for young adults in Texas. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March, however, upheld a Florida law passed after the mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that raised the legal age to buy a gun from 18 to 21.
Some judges have expressed frustration with the Bruen test and questioned whether judges are suited to be poring over and analyzing history. In his decision, Payne used a footnote to lament what he sees as the challenges with the test, saying “this court is staffed by lawyers who are neither trained nor experienced in making the nuanced historical analyses called for by Bruen.”
“There is a reason that historians attend years of demanding schooling and that their scholarship undergoes a rigorous peer-review process before publication,” he wrote.
The Supreme Court could soon decide whether to grant an emergency request to block an Illinois law signed in January that bans the sale of so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Challengers of the law appealed to the high court after a federal judge in Chicago in February found the law to be constitutional under the Bruen test, and an appeals court also refused to put the law on hold.
The Justice Department also appealed to the Supreme Court after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in February — citing the Bruen decision — struck down a federal law prohibiting people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them from possessing guns. Justice Department lawyers said their petition to the high court that the law “fits squarely within the longstanding tradition of disarming dangerous individuals.” The court has not yet said whether it will take up the case.
Other restrictions that judges have found to be unconstitutional in recent months include a federal law prohibiting people who use marijuana from owning firearms and a federal ban on possessing a gun with its serial number removed.
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Richer reported from Boston. Associated Press reporters Jessica Gresko and Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington contributed.
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — A group led by Josh Harris has agreed to buy the NFL’s Washington Commanders from longtime owner Dan Snyder and his family.
The sides announced the deal in a joint statement Friday, roughly a month after they reached an agreement in principle on the sale for a record $6.05 billion.
The deal is the highest price paid for a North American professional sports franchise. It is still pending approval of three-quarters of owners and other customary closing conditions.
Harris’ group includes Washington-area billionaire Mitchell Rales and basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson. Snyder has owned the team since 1999.
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“Love cannot win without trust.” That’s the moral of the mythological tale of Eros and Psyche. And in a way, it’s the story of politics as well. But first things first. Psyche, in mythology, was breathtaking. When Eros, the God of love itself, fell in love with her, he whisked her away to a voluminous castle where he courted her. However, he warned, she could not lay eyes upon his physical form.
As the days passed, some people, including sisters of Psyche, were consumed with jealousy and attempted to convince the young bride that it was a vicious monster who had whiskered her away. Do not trust him, they warned. He has nothing in mind for you but evil.Eventually, Psyche dared to lay her eyes on her groom one night as they slept. There she saw her husband was love itself.
Eros, however, left her. There can be no love without trust, he told her sadly. Different variations offer different endings, including some that say the couple did eventually reconcile.
Trust is that upon which all good relationships flourish and this includes relationships with our politicians. How can there be loyalty from constituents without trust? President Biden has worked so very hard to EARN that trust. He’s fulfilled so very many of his campaign promises, showing that his loyalty is not to himself but to the American people.
The GOP, on the other hand, has broken literally every campaign promise they’ve ever made. They lied when they pledged to take care of the American people — to honor them and protect their interests. It’s their OWN interests they seek to protect.
That’s why many in the GOP want to steal health insurance, social Security, and VA benefits. The GOP are thieves in the night, looking not at the American people but at their own greed. The glorification of greed, power, and hubris has been conducted only by Republicans. There is a clear choice for the American people, and that is what we must show.
Compare and contrast — showing the purity of the spirit of President Biden and the corruption of spirit by the GOP.
The American people, for the most part, just want a government that cares. They look for an agenda that’s bursting with wisdom and truth. What the majority of the Gop offer is so far removed that it’s almost laughable. And if we can clearly explain this, to the American people we’ll win and win and keep on winning.
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After new CNN CEO Chris Licht spent months making a series of dumb moves that sent ratings plummeting, he tried a hail mary this week by holding a “Trump town hall” with a pro-Trump audience. The entire thing was an offensive disaster, and while it certainly didn’t help Trump any, it was still inexcusable.
Licht has since tried putting out a public statement about how pleased he was with how the town hall went. But that kind of talk is often just damage control. And when longtime high profile CNN host Anderson Cooper issued an embarrassingly awkward and condescending on-air defense of the town hall, it felt like Licht had pushed him into doing it.
But even as the biggest names at CNN either publicly defended the town hall or steered clear of the debacle entirely, one CNN reporter – Oliver Darcy – wrote negatively about it. You may have heard of Darcy, but most people haven’t. Whatever you think of Darcy, he’s relatively low level at the network. It’s unlikely that more than a relative handful of people even saw his criticism of the town hall.
Yet it turns out Chris Licht and CNN’s other top executives reportedly hauled in Darcy so they could hammer him for having dared to criticize the town hall. Suffice it to say that this is not the behavior of a boss who thinks things are going well overall. If Licht truly thought the town hall went well for CNN, and if he truly thought audiences were eventually going to warm up to the changes he’s making at the network, he wouldn’t be worried about trying to silence someone like Darcy. He’d expect it all to just work itself out in the long run.
The kicker is that it appears someone at CNN was offended enough at seeing Licht bully Darcy, that person leaked the whole thing to the media just to make Licht look bad. And that really tells you all you need to know about how badly things are slipping away from Licht. He’s reduced to bullying underlings for daring to question his idiotic decisions. And his other underlings are so fed up with him, they’re making sure the public knows just how badly the whole thing is spiraling.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk is welcoming a veteran ad executive to the helm of Twitter, the social media site the billionaire Tesla CEO had been running since he bought it last fall.
Musk announced Friday that he’s hiring Linda Yaccarino to be the new CEO of San Francisco-based Twitter, which is now called X Corp. He said Yaccarino’s role will be focused mainly on running the company’s business operations, leaving him to focus on product design and new technology.
Here’s what to know about Yaccarino.
VETERAN AD EXEC
Yaccarino, 60, has worked as an advertising executive for decades. She came to NBCUniversal in 2011, just as Comcast was completing its merger with NBC, and oversaw integrating the companies’ ad sales platforms. There, her most recent title was chairman, advertising and client partnerships. She oversaw all market strategy and advertising revenue, which totaled nearly $10 billion, for NBCUniversal’s entire portfolio of broadcast, cable and digital assets.
Before that, she held a variety of roles at Turner Broadcasting System Inc. from 1996 to 2011, including executive vice president and chief operating officer. That was after she held management positions at several media sales outlets.
“She’s a marketer’s leader,” said Mark DiMassimo, founder and creative chief of ad agency DiGo.
“She speaks CMO and she understands what marketers need,” he added, referring to the role of chief marketing officer.
PUSHING BOUNDARIES
Yaccarino has pushed the ad industry for change on several fronts, including advocating for relying less heavily on Nielsen ratings for measurement, and introducing a digital platform called One Platform that makes it easier to buy ads across a variety of different media in an effort to better compete for ads against social media companies and traditional media companies.
“It’s worth noting that they built out a big team that’s made a lot of innovative products and supported the growth that they’ve experienced,” said Brian Wieser of strategic advisory firm Madison and Wall. “They’ve been pushing the industry on a lot of fronts, you know, trying to make it better.”
“I think that first and foremost, she’ll bring to Twitter an understanding of what advertisers need to see to get back on the platform from the brand safety perspective,” said Dave Campanelli, chief investment officer of media buying firm Horizon Media. “She knows better than anyone what it’s going to take and I think for advertisers and buyers, the question really is, is she going to have free rein to do all that or is it going to be just the same old, same old (with Musk).”
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Yaccarino serves as chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Taskforce on the Future of Work. A 1985 graduate of Pennsylvania State University, she lives in Sea Cliff, New York, with her husband, Claude Madrazo. They have two children, Christian and Matthew.
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