SCOTUS U. S. v Davis. Invalidates part of law aimed at preventing gun violence

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Supreme Court invalidates part of law aimed at preventing gun violence

The Supreme Court on Monday invalidated a key part of a law designed to prevent gun violence, saying it left too much leeway to judges to decide what is considered a violent crime.

m.washingtontimes.com

 

[KBCraig]

The Armed Career Criminals Act was a steaming mess of vagueness.

 

[Firearms Iinstuctor]

Laws concerning objects rarely if at all have and effect on the crime rate.

 

[CJ4wd]

Wouldn't removing this "vagueness" also serve to limit some of these dictatorial judges that too broadly define "violence"? Those same limitations means that different cases would be judged by a standardized measure.

 

[color of law]

This says it all.

JUSTICE GORSUCH delivered the opinion of the Court.
“In our constitutional order, a vague law is no law at all. Only the people’s elected representatives in Congress have the power to write new federal criminal laws. And when Congress exercises that power, it has to write statutes that give ordinary people fair warning about what the law demands of them. Vague laws transgress both of those constitutional requirements. They hand off the legislature’s responsibility for defining criminal behavior to unelected prosecutors and judges, and they leave people with no sure way to know what consequences will attach to their conduct. When Congress passes a vague law, the role of courts under our Constitution is not to fashion a new, clearer law to take its place, but to treat the law as a nullity and invite Congress to try again.”