Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh criticized their colleagues on the Supreme Court for a failure to consider any cases regarding the Second Amendment over the last decade while welcoming several others examining various social issues during the same time.
“This Court would almost certainly review the constitutionality of a law requiring citizens to establish a justifiable need before exercising their free speech rights. And it seems highly unlikely that the Court would allow a State to enforce a law requiring a woman to provide a justifiable need before seeking an abortion,” Thomas wrote in an opinion joined by Kavanaugh. “But today, faced with a petition challenging just such a restriction on citizens’ Second Amendment rights, the Court simply looks the other way.”
