Justice Thomas ripped the state court justices to shreds.
Aloha means hello and goodbye, and the Supreme Court said both, and see you later to a gun control case out of Hawaii on Monday. In Wilson v. Hawaii, the Court rejected an appeal challenging Hawaii’s gun carry law. What’s remarkable is what three conservative Justices wrote while doing so. Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch engaged in rare speculation that the case would be back in the future with a different result.
Here are the particulars of this case: Christopher Wilson went for a hike with friends in the West Maui Mountains, including, inadvertently, on private lands. When police confronted and searched Wilson, they discovered his loaded pistol. Hawaii prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor criminal trespass and carrying a…