But unless the litigants can secure immediate injunctions, those suits could take months or years to work through the courts, and in the meantime the state governments get to collect all sorts of personal data on prospective gun owners.
Yes but you'd need a California or a NY judge to grant one, and then, if I understand the process correctly, you'd need a Ninth or Second Circuit appeals judge to uphold it.
An emergency request could be fast-tracked to the individual SCOTUS judge assigned to those circuits, but those are Kagan and Sotomayor respectively, so no help there.
But unless the litigants can secure immediate injunctions, those suits could take months or years to work through the courts, and in the meantime the state governments get to collect all sorts of personal data on prospective gun owners.
I think that's what an emergency injunction is for.
Yes but you'd need a California or a NY judge to grant one, and then, if I understand the process correctly, you'd need a Ninth or Second Circuit appeals judge to uphold it.
An emergency request could be fast-tracked to the individual SCOTUS judge assigned to those circuits, but those are Kagan and Sotomayor respectively, so no help there.
And then 'accidentally' leak said data when it suits them.