On Thursday, June 29th, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard our appeal seeking to restore the preliminary injunction issued by Judge Stephen McGlynn from the Southern District of Illinois federal court. First off, let me be more specific, a three judge panel heard the appeal. It was almost the worst possible panel when it comes to the pro-gun side. How could it have been worse? How about all three of the panelists rabidly anti-gun?
Among the panel: Frank Easterbrook, the kooky jurist who wrote one of the earlier decisions affirming the state’s right to ban common self-defense firearms like America’s favorite rifle, the AR-15. He’s the same justice who went outside the normal channels to stay the preliminary injunction issued by Judge McGlynn.
Who else? Diane Wood, who wrote the “interesting” and well-thought out dissent in the decision. Watch these from Todd Vandermyde to learn more about just how rabidly anti-gun she is.
I’m not hip on Justice Brennan, but he did ask some very critical questions of the State’s representative. He was brutal at times.
In short, we lose. Expect the decision to be slow-walked. Expect a decision that goes against gun owners and the Bruen decision. Easterbrook, the geeky misfit with the really big ego that thinks he should have been nominated to the US Supreme Court, and Wood, a gun control jihadist, don’t care about what Bruen said. They’ll try to craft the 2-1 decision to kinda-sorta re-write the Bruen decision and see if the US Supreme Court will take the case. My guess is they’ll play the odds that SCOTUS turns away the appeal as they do with 99.9% of cases submitted for appeal.
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