by Second Amendment attorney, author, and blogger Mark Smith just published an analysis of the questions raised by how the 9th Circuit is handling the emergency stay in Duncan v. Bonta. I discussed the nine page ruling in my previous post and the concerns of Judges Butamay and VanDyke. Smith, however, goes right to the rules for how the 9th Circuit is supposed to handle emergency motions like the one from California. The 9th Circuit has two panels comprised of three judges each who rotate on a monthly basis to handle these situations. Until just recently, the names of these judges would have been published on the court’s website.
Smith goes into much more detail in the 12 minute video below. He raises some very good questions and it would be very interesting to know just who were the judges that should have been assigned to this case.
