Judge strikes down law banning guns from Chicago’s trains. Here’s why

Judge Iain Johnston of the Northern District of Illinois struck down a law banning guns from Chicago ’s trains.

Judge Johnston is worried that people might connect his conversion of NRA talking points into a published opinion to him being a Federalist Society-vetted (member 1995-1998 !) Trump appointee.

He decided to lampshade it off the top with a footnote, to guilt some reporter into not hurting the judge's fee-fees.

The Second Amendment guarantees the “right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation” Justice Thomas argued in Bruen that while other people can and should dodge bullets on their way home from work, he and his fellow judges personally exist in a sensitive place.

The burden shifts to whether the government can categorize the location as a “sensitive place” Thomas reasoned that because no one historically challenged courthouse gun bans it means everyone must agree.

Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer .

He also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search .

Don’t want some future armchair historians scanning the internet from their brain implant to have to rummage through newspaper clippings with words like Trump judge’.