My cousin sent me a second email. Here is the full exchange. Is there really anyone who desn't think he would make a better president than any of those presently running?
David Alan Sklansky
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sklansky@stanford.edu
To:
dsklansky@aol.com
Mon, Nov 6 at 11:02 AM
I think what's at issue in the case is whether the Constitution allows the government to make it a crime for someone subject to a domestic violence restraining order to possess a gun. To get a restraining order, you need more than just an accusation, although less than a criminal conviction. So I don't think it's right to say that Rahimi was penalized just based on an accusation. He was placed under a restraining order because a judge concluded that he had committed acts of domestic violence and was likely to do so again. Then he was prosecuted for violating one of the terms of the restraining order, which prohibited him from possessing a gun.
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 10:54 AM
dsklansky@aol.com <dsklansky@aol.com> wrote:
II am doing well. Hope you are too. The reason I thought you might have mixed emotions was that the person is being penalized in a way that implies he has been convicted rather than just accused. But maybe the law allows that in certain cases already in which case my thinking that you would have a problem with that was wrong. In any case my thought about your stance wasn't really related to your stance on specifically gun laws.
On Monday, November 6, 2023 at 09:31:35 AM PST, David Alan Sklansky <sklansky@stanford.edu> wrote:
Great to hear from you, Cousin! Hope you're doing well. I don't really have mixed feelings about Rahimi. I think the way the Supreme Court has interpreted the Second Amendment is very hard to defend. If you had told me when I was in law school that one day the Supreme Court would conclude that the Constitution should be interpreted to allow only the kinds of gun regulations that were in place in 1791 ... well, I don't know what I would have thought. It's just such a crazy way to interpret the Constitution. And it's contributing to the high rates of lethal violence in the United States. So I really hope the government prevails in Rahimi.
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 1:05 AM
dsklansky@aol.com <dsklansky@aol.com> wrote:
Thinking you may have mixed emotions.