{"id":66460,"date":"2018-03-30T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66460"},"modified":"2018-03-29T20:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T01:44:45","slug":"66460","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66460","title":{"rendered":"Pandora&#8217;s Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hmmm, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/27\/opinion\/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region\">according to Mr. Justice Stevens<\/a>, the Supreme Court is capable of getting a decision wrong, as it did in the case he dissented from. I wonder what other cases also were wrongly decided and therefore ought to be ignored by all right-thinking people?<\/p>\n<p>Brown v. Board of Education \u2013 separate but equal?<\/p>\n<p>Roe v. Wade \u2013 abortion on demand?<\/p>\n<p>Stenberg v. Carhart \u2013 partial birth abortion?<\/p>\n<p>Obergefell v. Hodges \u2013 gay marriage?<\/p>\n<p>The retired justice may have done the nation a great service, opening the door to invite us to ignore the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What he&#8217;s also done is shown us what he&#8217;d never have put in a legal opinion; why repeal the Second Amendment if it\u00a0<em>isn&#8217;t\u00a0<\/em>in fact a broad protection of citizens&#8217; gun rights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hmmm, so according to Mr. Justice Stevens, the Supreme Court is capable of getting a decision wrong, as it did in the case he dissented from. I wonder what other cases also were wrongly decided and therefore ought to be ignored by all right-thinking people? Brown v. Board of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66462,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66460\/revisions\/66462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}