Daily Caller: A federal court upheld a prior dismissal of a challenge to Texas’s campus carry law Thursday, providing individuals with a concealed carry permit the ability to carry a firearm on public university property.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected to revive the lawsuit by three University of Texas at Austin professors, upholding a 2015 law that the trio challenged in July 2016, yet was ultimately dismissed.
The professors claimed that the aforementioned law would violate an individual’s constitutional rights of free speech, due process and equal protection and would “have a substantial chilling effect on class discussion.”
The three-judge panel rejected the assertion, arguing that there is not proof of any impending harm to rationalize such fears. more here
The biggest and most long lasting thing DJT can do to save our Constitutional Republic is pack the Judiciary.
I hope these leftist morons are required to pay the expenses of the defendants plus court costs.
Further proof, in case you need anymore, that Austin is the weirdest city in Texas. Also another exposure of the liberal professors that infest our higher learning centers.
This lawfare crap has got to stop. There needs to be some kind of penalty for filing a nuisance suit against a law that you don’t like.
In 1890 the Superintendent of the US Naval War college was Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan. His niche in history is that he authored a little book titled “The Influence of Seapower on History” which turned out to be very popular and influential within the ranks of professional naval officers. Kaiser Wilhelm II, who reportedly kept a copy on his bedside table, ordered that the officers of his Kreigsmarine read it.
One of the topics Mahan discussed was the concept of a ‘fleet in being’. This was the idea that just the possession of a large, powerful, efficient naval force was enough to secure a nation from the possibility of invasion and guarantee that the nation’s merchant shipping could go about its business without fear of foreign harassment. Mahan also said that the longer that a nation’s navy remains just a ‘fleet in being’ without ever going into action, the less and less effective it will be at keeping the peace. Someday, somebody will decide to take a chance.
The Second Amendment to the US Constitution has been a ‘fleet in being’ for over two hundred years and those who it was meant to deter are becoming bold and restless. It looks like the time is coming when it will be necessary to do something pour encourager les autres.