Ninth Circuit Puts its Finger on the Scale to Delay, Derail California Magazine Ban Challenge

By LKB

As a federal trial attorney with appellate experience, including clerking for a United States Court of Appeals judge decades ago, I tend to discount a lot of the “conspiracy theories” non-lawyers often postulate about how courts work and operate in Second Amendment cases.   Certainly, there are plenty of judges who decide cases by deciding what result they want to reach and then construct a rationalization that justifies it, but by and large my experience is that judges – especially appellate judges – realize that at least appearing to follow the rules and the law is essential to public confidence in the courts.

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By LKB

As a federal trial attorney with appellate experience, including clerking for a United States Court of Appeals judge decades ago, I tend to discount a lot of the “conspiracy theories” non-lawyers often postulate about how courts work and operate in Second Amendment cases.   Certainly, there are plenty of judges who decide cases by deciding what result they want to reach and then construct a rationalization that justifies it, but by and large my experience is that judges – especially appellate judges – realize that at least appearing to follow the rules and the law is essential to public confidence in the courts.

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