Letter to the editor: A powerful but pointless statement
On Monday the Supreme Court delivered its last batch of judicial decisions for the year. Most of the attention went to the highly anticipated Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt ruling, which struck down Texas’s admitting privileges and surgical center requirements for abortion clinics. However, it was not the only substantial women’s rights ruling of the day. The Supreme Court also ruled on Voisine v. United States, which some may remember as the case during which Clarence Thomas broke his decade of silence on the bench. Voisine v. U.S. affirmed the lower court opinion that “a reckless domestic assault qualifies as a ‘misdemeanor crime of domestic violence' that prohibits firearms possession by convicted felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9).”